Sector Brief

Big Tech

Big Tech, on this page, is four US platform companies: Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta. Advertising, cloud, productivity, and commerce at this scale are what currently fund their AI infrastructure spending. The page is separate from AI Labs, which follows frontier model labs, from Semiconductors, and from the datacenters tracker. Apple is not a member. Google DeepMind, Waymo, and Amazon Leo stay on their own pages.

State of the Industry

Updated 2026-10-07

04 Companies

Alphabet

Public

Alphabet Inc. is the holding company of Google. Google was incorporated in California in September 1998, and Alphabet became the successor issuer in a 2015 reorganization. Sundar Pichai is CEO of Alphabet and Google. Headquarters are in Mountain View, California. For the quarter ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $119.8 billion, up 24%, and operating income was $40,770 million. Google Services revenue was $94.5 billion and Google Cloud revenue was $24.8 billion, up 82%. The supplemental table lists 198,933 employees. Other income of $97,983 million was mostly unrealized equity-securities gains and is not operating profit. Q3 2026 results are scheduled for October 28, 2026. This profile has no logo yet.

1998 · 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California

Amazon

Public

Amazon.com, Inc. is based at 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle. Jeffrey P. Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Andrew R. Jassy has been president and CEO since July 2021. In the quarter ended June 30, 2026, net sales were $200.6 billion, up 20%, and operating income was $27.5 billion. AWS segment sales were $42.2 billion, up 37% on the rounded headline, and North America segment sales were $116.2 billion, up 16%. The FY2025 Form 10-K reports about 1,576,000 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025. Amazon Leo is a separate page and is not a product on this profile. This profile has no logo yet.

1994 · 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington

Meta

Public

Meta Platforms, Inc. is a Delaware corporation at 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, California. Mark Zuckerberg founded it as Facebook in 2004 and is founder, chairman, and CEO. In the quarter ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $60.80 billion, up 28%, and income from operations was $18,775 million, down 8%, after $2.40 billion of legal charges and $1.18 billion of severance. Family of Apps revenue was $60,370 million. Reality Labs revenue was $431 million, with an operating loss of $4,619 million. Headcount was 75,472 as of June 30, 2026, including about 8,000 employees from the May reduction. Family daily active people averaged 3.60 billion in June 2026 across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. This profile has no logo yet.

2004 · 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, California

Microsoft

Public

Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 and is based at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington. Satya Nadella is chairman and CEO. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $331.8 billion, up 18%, and operating income was $155.2 billion, up 21%. Fourth-quarter revenue was $90.0 billion and operating income was $40.6 billion. Nadella said Azure revenue surpassed $100 billion for the first time and that Microsoft 365 Copilot reached over 30 million paid seats. The company employed about 223,000 full-time people as of June 30, 2026. The quarter ended September 30, 2026 was not in the July 29 release. This profile has no logo yet.

1975 · 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington