Companies & labs

Meta

US technology company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI

27recordsFirst record 2021Latest Oct 15, 2026

Profile

Country
United States
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
Founded
February 2004 (Facebook launched); incorporated July 2004
Founders
Mark Zuckerberg with Harvard classmates (Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and others)
Type
Public company listed on Nasdaq (META)

Meta (Meta Platforms) is a technology company with its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in the United States. It began in February 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg, then a Harvard student, launched 'Facebook' with Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and others. At first, Facebook was open only to Harvard students. It was incorporated in Delaware in July that year and listed its shares on the stock market in May 2012. In October 2021 it changed the company's name from Facebook to Meta, a name taken from 'metaverse', meaning a virtual world. Today its shares trade on the US Nasdaq stock market under the ticker 'META'. As of October 2026, its founder Mark Zuckerberg is chief executive (CEO).

Meta earns almost all of its revenue from advertising. In its 'Family of Apps' segment, which brings together apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, it is paid by advertisers to show their ads to the people they want to reach. In 2023 it also launched 'Threads', a text-based social network. Its other segment, 'Reality Labs', makes virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices, software and content. The company says this segment has so far generated only limited revenue.

In AI, it has released the 'Llama' series of large language models (AI that learns from a huge amount of text and writes sentences like a person) since 2023 as open-weight models (models whose files are published so they can be downloaded and used). In 2025 it reorganised its AI work into 'Meta Superintelligence Labs', and in April 2026 it made that lab's first model, 'Muse Spark', available in the app and website of its AI assistant, 'Meta AI'. In August 2026 it released 'Muse Glimmer', an open-weight model that can run on a personal computer, and in October it released 'Muse Wonder', which Meta calls its most capable model so far. Muse Wonder cannot be downloaded; it is offered through a developer API and the coding tool 'Muse Code'. It has also introduced devices such as 'Ray-Ban Meta' smart glasses.

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Records 27

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2026 5

Meta, Arm (PyTorch ExecuTorch)
PyTorch ExecuTorch releases an Arm Cortex-M CPU backend

In the team's own measurements, 4 MLPerf Tiny models each ran in 21.5ms or less and under 90KiB of RAM on a single Cortex-M55 core of the Alif Ensemble E8 (the anomaly detection autoencoder in 5.2KiB). The team noted the

Meta
Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights

Meta claims it is the most capable US open-weights model to date. It adds safety post-training for standalone use on top of the same base model as Muse Spark 1.3, and ships with SGLang and vLLM optimizations and Helion k

Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark 1.3

MSL keeps to its closed-API route while putting agent efficiency (fewer tool calls and tokens) forward as its headline metric

Meta
Muse Glimmer 30B

The first open weights since Llama 4, released under Apache 2.0; an on-device agent at under 20GB in 4-bit

Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark

The point at which Meta's two-track strategy was settled: the frontier model closed, with only separate small models open

2025 6

PyTorch (Meta)
PyTorch releases Monarch

The point at which the single-controller model proposed by Google's Pathways in 2022 entered the core PyTorch lineage. TorchTitan becomes an actor inside Monarch, and torchforge is built on top of Monarch

PyTorch (Meta)
Helion released in beta

Just as Triton abstracted CUDA by one level, Helion abstracts Triton by one more. The next layer in the lineage of kernel authoring

Meta
Meta releases GAIA2 and the open-source execution framework ARE

A shift from evaluating static information retrieval to measuring agent robustness in dynamic, asynchronous environments

Meta
Meta launches Meta Superintelligence Labs, invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI

A turning point for the Llama line; Behemoth's release postponed

Meta / LMArena
Controversy over unreleased experimental Llama 4 Maverick behind Arena score

The mismatch between versions submitted to leaderboards and the publicly released ones became a public issue

2024 8

Meta (Pagnoni et al.)
Byte Latent Transformer

Processes bytes directly, without a fixed vocabulary, using entropy-based dynamic patches; the first large-scale scaling of the tokenizer-free approach

Meta
Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B

An update to the Llama 3 line that shipped a single 70B instruction-tuned model, with no separate pretrained release

Wanchao Liang et al. (Meta)
Meta presents TorchTitan

The point at which a PyTorch-native training framework became established as an alternative to Megatron-LM. FSDP2, torch.compile and FP8 were bundled into a single stack

Meta
Meta releases Llama 3.2 with vision and on-device models

The 11B and 90B were the first Llama models to support image input, released alongside 1B and 3B models aimed at on-device use

Meta (Llama 3 team)
The Llama 3 Herd of Models published

The first primary source to publish quantitative data on fault tolerance in large-scale training. Settled, for the whole industry, that checkpointing and automatic recovery are essential

Meta
Llama 3.1 (8B/70B/405B)

Frontier-class weights were released for the first time, and the license allowed training on the model's outputs

Jay Shah et al. (Colfax, Together AI, Meta, NVIDIA, Princeton)
FlashAttention-3 published

A case showing that kernels must be rewritten for a specific generation of silicon. Quantitatively rebutted accuracy concerns about FP8 attention

Meta
Llama 3 (8B/70B, about 15T tokens)

The 8B delivered the previous generation's 70B-class performance, raising the bar for practical local use

2023 7

Meta, HuggingFace (Mialon et al.)
GAIA benchmark

On 466 questions, humans scored 92% versus 15% for GPT-4 with plugins; shifted the focus of evaluation from hard exams to practical ability

Shehzaad Dhuliawala et al. (Meta AI, ETH Zurich)
Chain-of-Verification published

Structured self-checking into 4 steps to reduce hallucinations

Meta
Meta releases Code Llama

A code-specialized line trained on 500B tokens of code and code-related data on top of Llama 2; a 70B version was added on January 29, 2024

Meta
Meta releases Llama 2 — commercial use allowed, but under a Community License

Popularized open weights, and the starting point of the debate over whether it is open source

Yanli Zhao et al. (Meta)
PyTorch FSDP paper published

The turning point at which large-scale training became possible with the standard framework, without DeepSpeed

Meta AI
Meta AI releases LLaMA 1 (7B/13B/33B/65B) for vetted non-commercial research

The first large attempt to distribute frontier-class weights after vetting

Meta AI (Schick et al.)
Toolformer

Learns on its own, through self-supervised learning, when to call APIs and with what arguments — the route of building tool use into the weights

2021 1

PyTorch (Meta)
PyTorch opens the FSDP2 RFC

A redesign of FSDP1. The precondition that made FP8 training, partial freezing and compiler optimization possible