Meta AI is the artificial intelligence division of Meta (formerly Facebook), with roots in its long-running fundamental AI research effort. It develops the Meta AI assistant and the open-weight Llama model family.
As of June 2026, Meta’s AI site frames the division around a vision of “personal superintelligence,” describing the goal of putting AI power directly in people’s hands rather than centralizing it. The page outlines research pillars spanning perception, language and communication, embodiment and actions, alignment, and core learning and reasoning. Meta AI is closely associated with prominent researchers in deep learning and with a strategy of releasing capable models as open weights.
Why business readers should care: Meta is the largest backer of open-weight AI, and its decisions on what to release freely directly shape the cost and availability of self-hostable models for everyone else.