Alphabet Inc. (Class C) vs Meta
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Alphabet Class C (no-vote shares); same $350B FY2024 revenue as GOOGL; Gemini AI across Search/Cloud/YouTube; DOJ antitrust ruling 2024; Waymo 150K+ weekly robotaxi rides.
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Alphabet Inc. Class C shares (Nasdaq: GOOG) represent the same underlying business as Class A (GOOGL) but carry no shareholder voting rights—created in the 2014 stock split to allow founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to retain control while monetizing their stakes. Alphabet is the parent company of Google, YouTube, Waymo, DeepMind, Google Cloud, and Other Bets, generating $350.0 billion in total revenues for FY2024—a 14% increase year-over-year—driven by Search advertising, YouTube, and Google Cloud Platform. CEO Sundar Pichai oversees the company's comprehensive integration of artificial intelligence across every product surface, anchored by the Gemini family of multimodal foundation models released in 2023 and continuously upgraded through 2024-2025.
Llama 4 open-source model (Scout, Maverick, Behemoth) released March 2026; Meta AI assistant deployed to 700M+ users across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook. FAIR research driving multimodal AI advances; $35B AI capex in 2025.
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Meta Platforms is a Menlo Park, California-based technology conglomerate operating the world's most widely used social media ecosystem — Facebook (3+ billion monthly active users), Instagram (2+ billion MAU), WhatsApp (2.8+ billion MAU), and Threads (launched 2023) — while investing heavily in virtual reality hardware (Meta Quest), augmented reality glasses (Meta Ray-Ban, Orion AR glasses in development), and AI research (Llama open-source model family). Listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: META), Meta generated $164.5 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 and employs approximately 74,000 people globally.
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