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Meta AI (FAIR)

Frontier Lab

Also known as: Meta AI, FAIR, Facebook AI Research, Meta Fundamental AI Research

Founded Dec 2013 (12 years old) by Yann LeCun

Meta AI has invested $66-72B in AI infrastructure (2025) with AGI targeted for 2027, pioneering open-source AI through PyTorch (63% market share) and LLaMA (1B+ downloads). However, the organization exhibits weak safety culture with Chief AI Scientist dismissing existential risk, 50%+ researcher att

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Revenue
$201.0 billion
as of 2025
Headcount
78,800
as of Dec 2025
Key People
4
4 total tracked
AI Models
6

Model Releases

4
Apr 2025
Llama 4

Next-generation open-weight models with mixture-of-experts architecture

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Apr 2024
LLaMA 3

Major upgrade (8B, 70B params); 405B released July 2024

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Jul 2023
LLaMA 2

Open-weight release (7B-70B params) with commercial license

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Feb 2023
LLaMA

First LLaMA model family (7B-65B params); initially restricted release, later leaked

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Products

2
PyTorchSep 2016
Open-source deep learning framework; became de facto standard for AI research
Meta AI AssistantSep 2023
AI assistant integrated across Meta apps (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook)

Safety Milestones

3
Llama GuardSafety EvalDec 2023

Open-source LLM-based safeguard model for content moderation

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Purple LlamaSafety EvalDec 2023

Open-source tools for evaluating and improving LLM safety including CyberSecEval

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Responsible Use GuidePolicy UpdateJul 2023

Guidelines for responsible deployment of Llama models

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Other Data

Major research initiatives and focus areas.
4 entries
NameDescriptionTeam SizeStarted
Open-Source AIDeveloping and releasing AI models and tools under open licensesJan 2015
Self-Supervised LearningLearning representations from unlabeled data; foundation of modern LLM trainingJan 2014
Computer VisionImage recognition, object detection, and visual understandingDec 2013
Natural Language ProcessingLanguage understanding, generation, and translationDec 2013

Key People

4
Ahmad Al Dahle
VP of Generative AI
Jan 2023 – present
Leads Meta's Generative AI group responsible for Llama models
Joelle Pineau
VP of AI Research
Jan 2017 – present
Leads FAIR; McGill professor; advocates for reproducible research and open science
Yann LeCunFounder
Chief AI Scientist
Dec 2013 – present
Founded FAIR in 2013; 2018 Turing Award laureate for deep learning; vocal critic of AI x-risk concerns
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Meta Platforms
Feb 2004 – present
Drives overall AI strategy for Meta; committed to open-source AI approach

Facts11

Financial
Annual Cash Burn$70 billion
Infrastructure Investment$125 billion
Headcount78,800
Revenue$201.0 billion
Market Share63%
Products & Usage
User Count1 billion
Organization
Founded DateDec 2013
HeadquartersMenlo Park, CA
Legal StructureDivision of Meta Platforms, Inc.
People
Founded ByYann LeCun
General
Websitehttps://ai.meta.com/
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AI Models (6)

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ModelReleasedPricing (in/out)Context
Llama 4 ScoutApr 202510M tokens
Llama 4 MaverickApr 20251M tokens
Llama 3.3Dec 2024128K tokens
Llama 3.1Jul 2024128K tokens
Llama 3Apr 20248K tokens
Llama 2Jul 20234K tokens