Meta
The company behind Facebook and Instagram, and a major AI spender and open-model publisher.
Meta is the American technology company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and the Quest headsets. Led by Mark Zuckerberg, it has become one of the largest investors in artificial intelligence, pouring tens of billions of dollars into research, chips and data centres.
Meta plays two distinct roles in the AI story. It is a heavyweight builder of AI agents and assistants aimed at its billions of users, and it is one of the biggest publishers of open-weight models that anyone can download and adapt. That openness has made Meta unusually influential with developers and small businesses.
Its scale means Meta’s stumbles are as instructive as its successes, for example, its public admission that building reliable agents has proven slower and harder than promised.
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AI Chatbots Handled Foreign Propaganda Better Than Search Engines in a New Test
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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
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Uber Fined 825 Million Euros for Letting Software Decide
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Nobody Passed: The First Report Card on How AI Labs Police Their Own Systems
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One Link Was Enough to Empty Your Copilot, and the Fix Took Eight Months
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We Are Building an Invention Meant to Outgrow Its Inventors
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Stripe Is Buying OpenRouter for More Than 7 Billion Dollars
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Stop Asking Whether AI Is a Bubble. Start Reading the Lease Agreements.
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If You Use Manus, You Have Eleven Days to Back Up Your Data
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Nvidia's New Free Model Is Not the Smartest. It Is Just Very, Very Fast
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Meta Put a 30B Model on Your Laptop, and Zuckerberg Used the Launch to Pick a Fight
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xAI's New Image Model Lands Second in the Arena Rankings, and Brings Photoshop-Style Editing to Grok
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OpenAI's first gadget is reportedly a moving, camera-equipped speaker the size of a hockey puck
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Meta ships Muse Code, a coding agent that keeps working after it crashes
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Meta gave its AI agent a second agent whose only job is remembering things
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Gemini's July update adds voice control on Mac, and leaves Europe out of the headline feature
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1,200 AI lab employees ask Washington for a brake pedal they admit nobody knows how to build
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Who Is Who: Black Forest Labs, the German Lab Inside Photoshop and Canva
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A British Startup Raised $450 Million to Build a Search Engine for New Materials
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The US Wants a 30-Day Look at New Frontier Models Before They Ship. Here's What That Actually Means
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Anthropic Is Reportedly in Talks to Rent Computing Power From Meta, a Direct Rival
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ChatGPT Is Back on WhatsApp in Europe, No Account Needed
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A Turing Award Winner Bets Against Deep Learning With His New Startup Oak Lab
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Anthropic Keeps Fable 5 Free for Subscribers a Little Longer, Thank the Price War
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Meta Kills the Feature That Let Anyone Generate AI Photos of You, No Consent Needed
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Independent Numbers Are In: Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 Is a Serious Value Pick
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GPT-5.6 Sol Nearly Matches the Best AI Model, at a Third of the Price
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Meta Joins the AI Price War With Muse Spark 1.1 and Its First Developer API
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Meta Is Testing AI Glasses That Record Your Whole Day, Without a Recording Light
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Meta Is Reportedly Planning a $200-a-Month AI Agent Called Hatch
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Even Zuckerberg Admits It: AI 'Agents' Are Harder to Build Than Promised