Meta AI

Type| Division
Industry| Artificial intelligence
Founded| December 11, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-12-11)
Founders|

* Rob Fergus
* Yann LeCun
* Serkan Piantino
* Mark Zuckerberg

Headquarters| Astor Place, New York City, New York, U.S.

Key people

* Joëlle Pineau (managing director)
* Yann LeCun (chief scientist)

Products| Llama
Owner| Meta Platforms
Website| ai.meta.com

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Artificial intelligence

Major goals

* Knowledge reasoning
* Planning
* Machine learning
* Natural language processing
* Computer vision
* Robotics
* Artificial general intelligence

Approaches

* Symbolic
* Deep learning
* Bayesian networks
* Evolutionary algorithms

Philosophy

* Ethics
* Existential risk
* Turing test
* Chinese room
* Control problem
* Friendly AI

History

* Timeline
* Progress
* AI winter

Technology

* Applications
* Projects
* Programming languages

Glossary

* Glossary

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

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Virtual assistant
* 3 Current research
* 3.1 Natural language processing and chatbot
* 3.1.1 Galactica
* 3.1.2 Llama
* 3.2 Hardware
* 4 Controversy
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

Meta AI was founded in 2013 as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR).[1][2] It has workspaces in Menlo Park, London, New York City, Paris, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Tel Aviv, and Montreal as of 2025.[3][4]

In 2016, FAIR partnered with Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft in creating the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society.

Meta AI was directed by Yann LeCun until 2018, when Jérôme Pesenti succeeded the role. Pesenti is formerly the CTO of IBM's big data group.[5]

FAIR's research includes self-supervised learning, generative adversarial networks, document classification and translation, and computer vision.[6] FAIR released Torch deep-learning modules as well as PyTorch in 2017, an open-source machine learning framework,[6] which was subsequently used in several deep learning technologies, such as Tesla's autopilot [7] and Uber's Pyro.[8] That same year, a pair of chatbots were falsely rumored[9] to be discontinued for developing a language that was unintelligible to humans.[10] 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.[9]

FAIR was renamed Meta AI following the rebranding that changed Facebook, Inc. to Meta Platforms Inc.[11]

On October 1, 2025, Facebook announced "We will soon use your interactions with AI at Meta to personalize the content and ads you see".[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

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### Natural language processing and chatbot

See also: Natural language processing

Natural language processing is the ability for machines to understand and generate natural language. The team is also researching unsupervised machine translation and multilingual chatbots.[19][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 an LLM released in February 2023.[24] As of January 2026, the most recent release is the Llama 4.[25]

### Hardware

Meta used CPUs and in-house custom chips before 2022; they switched to Nvidia GPUs since then.[26] MTIA v1, one of their early chips, is designed for the company's content recommendation algorithms. It was fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process technology and consumed 25W, capable of 51.2 TFlops FP16.[27]

## Controversy

The French media outlet Mediapart reports that in 2022, Facebook's parent company illegally used works accumulated by the pirate site LibGen to train its artificial intelligence.[28]

## 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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "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/.
7. ↑ Karpathy, Andrej (6 November 2019). "PyTorch at Tesla - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBklltKXtDE.
8. ↑ "Pyro". https://pyro.ai/.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "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.
10. ↑ 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."
11. ↑ 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.
12. ↑ "Improving Your Recommendations on Our Apps With AI at Meta". 1 October 2025. https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/improving-your-recommendations-apps-ai-meta/.
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.
28. ↑ "Comment un cofondateur de Mistral AI a piraté des millions de livres quand il travaillait chez Meta" (in fr). December 22, 2025. https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/221225/comment-un-cofondateur-de-mistral-ai-pirate-des-millions-de-livres-quand-il-travaillait-chez-m.

## External links

* Official website

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Generative AI

Concepts|

* Autoencoder
* Deep learning
* Fine-tuning
* Foundation model
* Generative adversarial network
* Generative pre-trained transformer
* Large language model
* Model Context Protocol
* Neural network
* Prompt engineering
* Reinforcement learning from human feedback
* Retrieval-augmented generation
* Self-supervised learning
* Stochastic parrot
* Synthetic data
* Top-p sampling
* Transformer
* Variational autoencoder
* Vibe coding
* Vision transformer
* Waluigi effect
* Word embedding

Models|

| Text|

* Character.ai
* ChatGPT
* Command A
* Claude
* DeepSeek
* Ernie
* Gemini
* Gemma
* GLM
* GPT
* 1
* 2
* 3
* J
* 3.5
* 4
* 4o
* o1
* o3
* 4.5
* 4.1
* o4-mini
* OSS
* 5
* 5.1
* Grok
* Hunyuan T1
* Kimi
* Llama
* Microsoft Copilot
* MiniMax M2
* Mistral Medium
* Qwen
* Velvet
* Solar Pro

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Coding|

* Base44
* Claude Code
* Cursor
* Devstral
* GitHub Copilot
* Grok Code Fast 1
* Kimi-Dev
* Qwen3-Coder
* Replit

Image|

* Aurora
* Firefly
* Flux
* GPT Image 1
* Ideogram
* Imagen
* Leonardo
* Midjourney
* Qwen-Image
* Recraft
* Seedream
* Stable Diffusion

Video|

* Dream Machine
* Hailuo AI
* Kling
* Runway Gen
* Seedance
* Sora
* Veo
* Wan

Speech|

* 15.ai
* Eleven
* Gemini Speech
* GPT-4o mini TTS
* MiniMax Speech
* Speechify

Music|

* Eleven Music
* Endel
* Lyria
* MiniMax Music
* Riffusion
* Stable Audio
* Suno
* Udio

Agents|

* Agentforce
* AutoGLM
* AutoGPT
* ChatGPT Agent
* Devin AI
* Manus
* MiniMax Agent
* OpenAI Codex
* Operator
* Replit Agent

Controversies|

* Deepfake pornography
* Generative AI pornography
* Taylor Swift deepfake pornography controversy
* Google Gemini image generation controversy
* Pause Giant AI Experiments
* Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI
* Statement on AI Risk
* Tay (chatbot)
* Théâtre D'opéra Spatial
* Voiceverse NFT plagiarism scandal

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