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| Owner | Meta Platforms |
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Meta AI is a research division of Meta (formerly Facebook) that develops artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies.
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
| This section may contain original research. cited articles are all original researches instead of e.g., reviews. (July 2025) |
Natural language processing and chatbot
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
- ^ "NYU "Deep Learning" Professor LeCun Will Head Facebook's New Artificial Intelligence Lab". TechCrunch. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Facebook's AI team hires Vladimir Vapnik, father of the popular support vector machine algorithm". VentureBeat. 2014-11-25. Archived from the original on 2014-11-27. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Facebook Opens New AI Research Center In Paris". TechCrunch. 2 June 2015. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ Dillet, Romain (June 2, 2015). "Facebook Opens New AI Research Center in Paris". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
- ^ Dave, Greshgorn (January 23, 2018). "The head of Facebook's AI research is stepping into a new role as it shakes up management". Quartz. Archived from the original on May 8, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
- ^ a b "FAIR turns five: What we've accomplished and where we're headed". Engineering at Meta. 2018-12-05. Archived from the original on 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ Karpathy, Andrej (6 November 2019). "PyTorch at Tesla - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Pyro". pyro.ai. Archived from the original on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ a b "Facebook researchers shut down AI bots that started speaking in a language unintelligible to humans". Tech2. 2017-07-31. Archived from the original on 2022-05-08. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ McKay, Tom (2017-08-01). "No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
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.
- ^ Murphy Kelly, Samantha (October 29, 2021). "Facebook changes its company name to Meta". CNN Business. Archived from the original on May 7, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
- ^ "Improving Your Recommendations on Our Apps With AI at Meta". Meta Newsroom. 1 October 2025. Archived from the original on 1 October 2025.
- ^ Kawale, Ajinkya (20 February 2025). "India among largest Meta AI adopters, backs open-source innovation". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 2025-02-20. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
- ^ "Meta to Launch Standalone AI App with Premium Features Amid Growing Competition". Mint. 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
- ^ "Meta AI Expansion: Standalone App and Subscription Model in the Works". Mint. 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
- ^ "Smart(er) Glasses: Introducing New Ray-Ban | Meta Styles + Expanding Access to Meta AI with Vision". Meta Quest Blog. 2024-04-23. Archived from the original on 2024-07-27.
- ^ Meta Quest Blog (July 23, 2024). "Introducing Meta AI on Meta Quest—Your Smart MR Assistant". Meta Blog.
- ^ "Meta walked away from news. Now the company's using it for AI content". The Washington Post. 21 May 2024. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Meta AI Research Topic - Natural Language Processing". ai.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 2022-05-08. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ 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].
- ^ 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].
- ^ "Why Meta's latest large language model survived only three days online". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Edwards, Benj (18 November 2022). "New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled". Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Leswing, Kif (2023-02-24). "Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new large language model as A.I. race heats up". CNBC. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
- ^ Wiggers, Kyle (2025-04-05). "Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
- ^ "Insight: Inside Meta's scramble to catch up on AI". Reuters. 2023-04-26.
- ^ Peters, Jay (2023-05-19). "Meta is working on a new chip for AI". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ "Comment un cofondateur de Mistral AI a piraté des millions de livres quand il travaillait chez Meta". Mediapart (in French). December 22, 2025. Retrieved December 23, 2025.
