Meta AI (FAIR)
Frontier LabAlso 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
Model Releases
4Next-generation open-weight models with mixture-of-experts architecture
ai.meta.com (opens in new tab)First LLaMA model family (7B-65B params); initially restricted release, later leaked
ai.meta.com (opens in new tab)Products
2Safety Milestones
3Open-source LLM-based safeguard model for content moderation
ai.meta.com (opens in new tab)Open-source tools for evaluating and improving LLM safety including CyberSecEval
ai.meta.com (opens in new tab)Guidelines for responsible deployment of Llama models
ai.meta.com (opens in new tab)Other Data
| Name | Description | Team Size | Started |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open-Source AI | Developing and releasing AI models and tools under open licenses | — | Jan 2015 |
| Self-Supervised Learning | Learning representations from unlabeled data; foundation of modern LLM training | — | Jan 2014 |
| Computer Vision | Image recognition, object detection, and visual understanding | — | Dec 2013 |
| Natural Language Processing | Language understanding, generation, and translation | — | Dec 2013 |
Key People
4Facts11
AI Models (6)
View all models →| Model | Released | Pricing (in/out) | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 4 Scout | Apr 2025 | 10M tokens | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Apr 2025 | 1M tokens | |
| Llama 3.3 | Dec 2024 | 128K tokens | |
| Llama 3.1 | Jul 2024 | 128K tokens | |
| Llama 3 | Apr 2024 | 8K tokens | |
| Llama 2 | Jul 2023 | 4K tokens |