Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has reported a higher-than-expected profit of 13.5bn for the most recent quarter, sending its shares nearly 7 percent higher. Revenue in the April-June period came in at 39bn, above market expectations and up 22 percent compared with the previous year, Meta said in its latest earnings report on Wednesday. The California-based tech giant said that it expected revenue in the third quarter to come in at between 38.5bn and 41bn. "We had a strong quarter, and Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of the year," Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. "We've released the first frontier-level open source AI model, we continue to see good traction with our Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, and we're driving good growth across our apps."