Description
Meta AI (including the Fundamental AI Research team, FAIR) is Meta’s AI research organization. FAIR was founded in 2013 and has produced foundational work in computer vision, NLP, and AI systems. Notable for open-sourcing major models including LLaMA, PyTorch, and SAM.
Key Properties
- Founded: 2013 (FAIR); Meta AI expanded subsequently
- Parent: Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook)
- Location: Menlo Park, CA (and global research sites)
- Focus: Computer vision, NLP, large language models, robotics, AI safety
- Notable models: LLaMA family, SAM (Segment Anything), DINO, Detectron2, PyTorch framework
Notable Sources
- segment-anything — SAM: Segment Anything (Kirillov et al., 2023)
- dino-self-supervised-vision-transformers — DINO: Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers (Caron et al., 2021)
- dinov2-learning-robust-visual-features — DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision (Oquab et al., 2023)