Company:Meta AI

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Meta AI
TypeDivision
IndustryArtificial intelligence
FoundedDecember 11, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-12-11)
Founders
HeadquartersAstor Place, New York City, New York, U.S.
Key people
ProductsLlama
OwnerMeta Platforms
Websiteai.meta.com

Meta AI is a research division of Meta (formerly Facebook) that develops artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies.

History

Meta AI was founded as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) with Yann LeCun as its director and Serkan Piantino as head of engineering. [1][2] Founded in New York in 2013, as of 2025 Meta AI has workspaces in Menlo Park, London, New York City, Paris, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Tel Aviv, and Montreal.[3][4] In 2016, FAIR partnered with Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft in creating the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society.

In 2018, Jérôme Pesenti, former CTO of IBM's big data group, assumed the role of president of FAIR while LeCun stepped down to serve as chief AI scientist.[5] FAIR had approximately 200 staff in 2018.[6]

FAIR's research includes self-supervised learning, generative adversarial networks, document classification and translation, and computer vision.[7] FAIR released Torch deep-learning modules as well as PyTorch in 2017, an open-source machine learning framework,[7] which was subsequently used in several deep learning technologies, such as Tesla's autopilot [8] and Uber's Pyro.[9] That same year, a pair of chatbots were falsely rumored[10] to be discontinued for developing a language that was unintelligible to humans.[11] FAIR clarified that the research had been shut down because they had accomplished their initial goal to understand how languages are generated by their models, rather than out of fear.[10]

FAIR was renamed Meta AI following the rebranding that changed Facebook, Inc. to Meta Platforms Inc.[12]

Virtual assistant

Meta AI is also the name of the virtual assistant developed by the team, now integrated as a chatbot into Meta's social networking products.[13] It is also available as a subscription-based stand-alone app.[14][15]

The virtual assistant was pre-installed on the second generation of Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and can incorporate inputs from the glasses' cameras after an update.[16] It is also available on Quest 2 and newer HMDs.[17]

Since May 2024, the chatbot has summarized news from various outlets without linking directly to original articles, including in Canada, where news links are banned on its platforms. This use of news content without compensation and attribution has raised ethical and legal concerns, especially as Meta continues to reduce news visibility on its platforms.[18]

Current research

Natural language processing and chatbot

See also: Natural language processing

Meta AI works on machines' ability to understand and generate natural language. The team also seeks to allow their chatbots to communicate multilingually.[19] This involves the generalization of natural language processing (NLP) technology to other languages, and the team actively works on unsupervised machine translation.[20][21]

Galactica

Galactica is a large language model (LLM) designed for generating scientific text. It was available for three days from 15 November 2022, before being withdrawn for generating racist and inaccurate content.[22][23]

Llama

LLaMA is a LLM released in February 2023, supporting 7B to 65B parameters.[24] Two of the three Llama 4 models, Scout and Maverick, were released on April 5, 2025, with the biggest model, Behemoth, still in training.[25]

Hardware

Meta used CPUs and in-house custom chips until 2022, when they switched to Nvidia GPUs. Several data centers were redesigned to accommodate the larger network bandwidth and cooling requirements.[26]

MTIA v1

Meta developed the training and inference accelerator, MTIA v1, specifically for their content recommendation workloads. It was fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process technology and operates at a frequency of 800 MHz. The accelerator provides 51.2 TFLOPS at FP16 precision, with a thermal design power (TDP) of 25 W.[27]

References

  1. ↑ "NYU "Deep Learning" Professor LeCun Will Head Facebook's New Artificial Intelligence Lab" (in en-US). 9 December 2013. https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/facebook-artificial-intelligence-lab-lecun/. 
  2. ↑ "Facebook's AI team hires Vladimir Vapnik, father of the popular support vector machine algorithm" (in en-US). 2014-11-25. https://venturebeat.com/2014/11/25/facebooks-ai-team-hires-vladimir-vapnik-father-of-the-popular-support-vector-machine-algorithm/. 
  3. ↑ "Facebook Opens New AI Research Center In Paris" (in en-US). 2 June 2015. https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/facebook-opens-new-ai-research-center-in-paris/. 
  4. ↑ Dillet, Romain (June 2, 2015). "Facebook Opens New AI Research Center in Paris". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/facebook-opens-new-ai-research-center-in-paris/. 
  5. ↑ Dave, Greshgorn (January 23, 2018). "The head of Facebook's AI research is stepping into a new role as it shakes up management". Quartz. https://qz.com/1186806/yann-lecun-is-stepping-down-as-facebooks-head-of-ai-research/. 
  6. ↑ Shead, Sam. "Facebook Plans To Double Size Of AI Research Unit By 2020" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/10/01/facebook-plans-to-double-size-of-ai-research-unit-by-2020/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "FAIR turns five: What we've accomplished and where we're headed" (in en-US). 2018-12-05. https://engineering.fb.com/2018/12/05/ai-research/fair-fifth-anniversary/. 
  8. ↑ Karpathy, Andrej (6 November 2019). "PyTorch at Tesla - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBklltKXtDE. 
  9. ↑ "Pyro". https://pyro.ai/. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Facebook researchers shut down AI bots that started speaking in a language unintelligible to humans". 2017-07-31. https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/facebook-researchers-shut-down-ai-bots-that-started-speaking-in-a-language-unintelligible-to-humans-3876197.html. 
  11. ↑ McKay, Tom (2017-08-01). "No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart" (in en-US). https://gizmodo.com/no-facebook-did-not-panic-and-shut-down-an-ai-program-1797414922. "When Facebook directed two of these semi-intelligent bots to talk to each other, FastCo reported, the programmers realized they had made an error by not incentivizing the chatbots to communicate according to human-comprehensible rules of the English language. In their attempts to learn from each other, the bots thus began chatting back and forth in a derived shorthand—but while it might look creepy, that’s all it was." 
  12. ↑ Murphy Kelly, Samantha (October 29, 2021). "Facebook changes its company name to Meta". CNN Business. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/28/tech/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-keynote-announcements/index.html. 
  13. ↑ Kawale, Ajinkya (20 February 2025). "India among largest Meta AI adopters, backs open-source innovation" (in en-US). https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/india-among-largest-meta-ai-adopters-backs-open-source-innovation-125022000986_1.html. 
  14. ↑ "Meta to Launch Standalone AI App with Premium Features Amid Growing Competition". 2024-02-27. https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/meta-ai-to-get-a-standalone-app-launch-its-premium-subscription-soon-report-11740706441071.html. 
  15. ↑ "Meta AI Expansion: Standalone App and Subscription Model in the Works". 2024-02-27. https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/meta-ai-to-get-a-standalone-app-launch-its-premium-subscription-soon-report-11740706441071.html. 
  16. ↑ "Smart(er) Glasses: Introducing New Ray-Ban | Meta Styles + Expanding Access to Meta AI with Vision". 2024-04-23. https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-new-styles-multimodal-ai-ferrari/. 
  17. ↑ Meta Quest Blog (July 23, 2024). "Introducing Meta AI on Meta Quest—Your Smart MR Assistant". https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/meta-ai-on-meta-quest-3. 
  18. ↑ "Meta walked away from news. Now the company's using it for AI content". The Washington Post. 21 May 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/meta-ai-news-summaries/. 
  19. ↑ "Meta AI Research Topic - Natural Language Processing" (in en). https://ai.facebook.com/research/topics/nlp. 
  20. ↑ Lample, Guillaume; Ott, Myle; Conneau, Alexis; Denoyer, Ludovic; Ranzato, Marc'Aurelio (2018-08-13). "Phrase-Based & Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation". arXiv:1804.07755 [cs.CL].
  21. ↑ Conneau, Alexis; Lample, Guillaume; Rinott, Ruty; Williams, Adina; Bowman, Samuel R.; Schwenk, Holger; Stoyanov, Veselin (2018-09-13). "XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations". arXiv:1809.05053 [cs.CL].
  22. ↑ "Why Meta's latest large language model survived only three days online" (in en). https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/. 
  23. ↑ Edwards, Benj (18 November 2022). "New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled" (in en-us). Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/after-controversy-meta-pulls-demo-of-ai-model-that-writes-scientific-papers/. 
  24. ↑ Leswing, Kif (2023-02-24). "Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new large language model as A.I. race heats up" (in en). https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/mark-zuckerberg-announces-meta-llama-large-language-model.html. 
  25. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (2025-04-05). "Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/05/meta-releases-llama-4-a-new-crop-of-flagship-ai-models/. 
  26. ↑ "Insight: Inside Meta's scramble to catch up on AI". Reuters. 2023-04-26. https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-metas-scramble-catch-up-ai-2023-04-25/. 
  27. ↑ Peters, Jay (2023-05-19). "Meta is working on a new chip for AI" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/18/23728678/meta-ai-new-chip-mtia-msvp-datacenter. 

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