"What's the best artificial intelligence (AI) stock to buy in early 2026? Several top contenders come to mind immediately. After Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ: META) stellar fourth-quarter update last week, it's definitely on the short list -- and perhaps deserves the top spot. Here are seven reasons why Meta arguably is the best AI stock to buy right now. 1. AI is transforming Meta's core ad business Meta remains a digital advertising juggernaut. Its ad revenue soared 24% year over year in Q4 to $58.1 billion."
"The speed of software development is critical to Meta's growth story. Thanks to agentic coding -- the use of agentic AI to write, test, and debug software with minimal human intervention -- the company's output per engineer has jumped 30% since the beginning of 2025. Meta's productivity improvement is even more impressive with power users, with AI coding tools increasing their output by a staggering 80% year over year."
Meta's ad revenue rose 24% year over year in Q4 to $58.1 billion. Changes to the GEM ad-ranking architecture and doubling of GPUs for model training produced a 3.5% increase in Facebook ad clicks and a 1%+ rise in Instagram ad conversions. Agentic coding raised output per engineer by 30% since early 2025, while AI coding tools increased power-user output by about 80% year over year. Smart glasses and personal superintelligence present large product and revenue opportunities. Reality Labs losses are projected to begin declining after 2026, which should boost overall company profitability.
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