The Meta AI Universe
An interactive field guide to everything Meta's AI labs have shipped — from PyTorch to the Muse era. 119 projects · 2016 → 2026 · one sky. Every star is real, every fact is sourced.
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Language & LLMs 20
- Llama 4 2025 open release · superseded
A 10-million-token context window — and a turning point - Code World Model 2025 open release
A neural debugger that simulates code in its head - Llama API 2025 closed · archived
Meta's hosted Llama, folded into the Model API in 2026 - Llama 3 / 3.1 / 3.2 / 3.3 2024 open release · superseded
405B: the first GPT-4-class model anyone could download - Large Concept Models 2024 open release
An AI that predicts the next idea, not the next word - Byte Latent Transformer 2024 open release
The architecture that killed the tokenizer - Llama Stack 2024 open release
Write the app once, run it local, cloud or on-prem - Coconut 2024 open release
Reasoning in latent space instead of words - Multi-token prediction 2024 open release
Several tokens per step: stronger code models, up to 3x faster - Memory Layers at Scale 2024 open release
Capacity without FLOPs: a lookup table the model learns to consult - LLaMA 2023 open release · superseded
The leak that started the open-weight revolution - Llama 2 2023 open release · superseded
Open weights you could build a business on - Code Llama 2023 open release · superseded
Llama learns to program - OPT-175B 2022 open release · superseded
The 175B model that published its 3 a.m. crash logs - Galactica 2022 open release · archived
The science LLM that lasted three days in public - BlenderBot 2020 open release · archived
A public chatbot that criticized its own CEO — months before ChatGPT - RoBERTa 2019 open release · superseded
BERT, done right - XLM-R 2019 open release · superseded
100 languages in one encoder — the ancestor of NLLB - BART 2019 open release · superseded
Corrupt the text, learn to rebuild it — summarization's workhorse - fairseq 2017 open release · archived
The toolkit that trained a decade of breakthroughs
Vision 17
- SAM 3 2025 open release
Type 'yellow school bus' — it masks every single one - SAM 3D (Objects + Body) 2025 open release
A single photo becomes a 3D object - DINOv3 2025 open release
One frozen backbone, from Instagram photos to Mars - VGGT 2025 open release
CVPR 2025 Best Paper: geometry without the geometry pipeline - Perception Encoder & Perception Language Model 2025 open release
A vision encoder whose best features hide in its middle layers - SAM 2 2024 open release · superseded
One click on one frame tracks an object through a whole video - Chameleon 2024 open release
Images and text in one token stream, trained from scratch - Sapiens 2024 open release
308 keypoints per body, learned from 300 million human images - Video Seal 2024 open release
Invisible video watermarks that survive blur, crops and compression - Segment Anything 2023 open release · superseded
Click anything, cut out anything — segmentation, solved - DINOv2 2023 open release · superseded
Label-free features that beat supervised pipelines - ImageBind 2023 open release
One embedding space to bind six senses - CoTracker 2023 open release
Follow any pixel through a video — even when it disappears - DINO 2021 open release · superseded
Attention maps that learned to see objects — with zero labels - PyTorch3D 2020 open release
Fit a 3D mesh from photos by gradient descent - Detectron2 2019 open release
Detection and segmentation, boxed up as the field's default toolkit - Mask R-CNN 2017 open release · superseded
The detection workhorse of an era
World Models & Embodied AI 12
- V-JEPA 2 2025 open release
It learned physics from video — then drove a robot arm it had never met - VL-JEPA 2025 closed
Predict the embedding, skip the tokens: JEPA outlives its champion - Meta Locate 3D 2025 open release
'The flower vase near the TV console' — located in 3D - V-JEPA 2024 open release · superseded
Released the same month as Sora — and betting the opposite way - PARTNR 2024 open release
100,000 household chores that showed robot planners slow humans down - OpenEQA 2024 open release
1,600 questions about real spaces — top VLMs were 'nearly blind' - Meta Motivo 2024 open release
Puppet a physics-based humanoid with a prompt - I-JEPA 2023 open release · superseded
LeCun's world-model bet, realized: predict representations, not pixels - Ego-Exo4D 2023 open release
Cooking, bike repair, bouldering — seen first- and third-person at once - Ego4D 2021 open release
3,670 hours of life, seen through human eyes - Project Aria 2020 closed
Research glasses for teaching machines to see like us - Habitat 2019 open release
A simulator where robots learn to walk before they exist
Speech & Sound 12
- Omnilingual ASR 2025 open release
Speech recognition for 1,600+ languages — most for the first time - SAM Audio 2025 open release
Segment Anything — for sound - Language Technology Partner Program + BOUQuET 2025 open release
Partners contribute underserved languages; the resulting models go open - Spirit LM 2024 open release
Text and speech in one token stream — with the emotion intact - SeamlessM4T & the Seamless family 2023 open release
A real-life Babel Fish that keeps your voice - Massively Multilingual Speech 2023 open release · superseded
Speech tech for 1,100+ languages - AudioCraft 2023 open release
Type a vibe, get a song - Voicebox 2023 closed
So good at voices Meta wouldn't release it - Audiobox 2023 closed
Describe the voice and the room — it generates both - No Language Left Behind 2022 open release
200 languages, one model, published in Nature - Universal Speech Translator 2022 open release · superseded
Translating a language with no standard written form - wav2vec 2.0 2020 open release · superseded
Speech recognition from raw audio, almost no labels
Open Source Infra 11
- ExecuTorch 2023 open release
PyTorch in your pocket - Animated Drawings 2021 open release
Your kid's doodle, walking - xFormers 2021 open release
Exact attention without the O(n²) memory bill - Hydra 2019 open release
Compose YAML configs, override from the shell, sweep in one flag - Nevergrad 2018 open release
Dozens of black-box optimizers behind one ask/tell API - faiss 2017 open release
The quiet backbone of the vector-database era - Prophet 2017 open release
The forecasting tool every analyst has met - PyTorch Domain Libraries 2017 open release
torchvision, torchaudio, torchtune — the batteries that came with PyTorch - ParlAI 2017 open release · archived
The dialogue framework that raised BlenderBot, archived in the LLM era - PyTorch 2016 open release
The framework the AI world runs on - fastText 2016 open release · archived
Language detection for 176 languages in under a megabyte
The Muse Era 9
- Muse Spark 2026 closed
Meta's first closed frontier model — and its comeback story - Muse Glimmer 2026 open release
The open-source plot twist: a 30B agent that runs on your laptop - Muse Image 2026 closed
An image model that thinks before it draws - Muse Video 2026 closed · preview
The Movie Gen lineage goes to production - Muse Code 2026 closed
Meta's terminal coding agent, powered by Spark 1.2 - Meta Model API 2026 closed
Muse Spark for developers - Meta Superintelligence Labs 2025 closed
The 2025 reboot: a superintelligence lab built around a $14.3B talent bet - Meta AI app 2025 closed
The assistant in front of 3 billion people - Vibes 2025 closed
A TikTok-style feed where every video is AI-made
AI for Science 9
- Open Molecules 2025 2025 open release
100 million quantum-chemistry calculations, given away - UMA — Universal Models for Atoms 2025 open release
~10,000x faster than DFT — a universal model for atoms - Brain2Qwerty 2025 open release
Typing decoded from non-invasive brain recordings - Open Materials 2024 2024 open release
Open data that topped Matbench Discovery for predicting stable crystals - fairchem 2024 open release
One pip install for five generations of FAIR chemistry - OpenDAC / ODAC25 2023 open release
70 million quantum calculations for materials that pull CO₂ from air - Brain & AI: Decoding Perception from MEG/EEG 2022 open release
Reconstructing what you see from brain signals - Open Catalyst Project 2020 open release
Hunting clean-energy catalysts with AI - ESM / ESMFold 2019 open release · archived
617 million protein structures in two weeks
Reality Labs Research 9
- Generic Neuromotor Interface 2025 open release
A wristband that reads intention from your nerves - Meta Ray-Ban Display + Neural Band 2025 closed
The neural wristband ships - Meta AI Glasses lineup 2025 closed
Camera-and-voice glasses from Ray-Ban and Oakley, now running Muse Spark - Orion 2024 closed
The AR glasses prototype a decade in the making - Codec Avatar Studio 2024 open release
Paired dome scans and headset footage of 256 people, released open - audio2photoreal 2024 open release
Record your voice, watch a photoreal avatar gesture along - emg2qwerty 2024 open release
Every keystroke of 108 typists, paired with their wrist signals - emg2pose 2024 open release
Hand tracking from the wrist — no camera required - Codec Avatars 2019 closed
Telepresence that looks exactly like you
On-Device & Silicon 8
- MobileLLM-Flash 2026 closed
Architecture search with real phone latency in the loop - MobileLLM-R1 / R1.5 2025 open release
Sub-billion reasoners matching Qwen3-0.6B on a seventh of the tokens - MobileLLM-Pro 2025 open release
1B parameters, 128k context — built by the smart-glasses org - MobileLLM 2024 open release
Proof that sub-billion models could think - GPU superclusters: 350K H100s → Prometheus & Hyperion 2024 closed
Gigawatt-scale factories for intelligence - Quantized Llama 3.2 2024 open release
Llama 3.2 on a phone — 56% smaller, up to 4x faster - Meta LLM Compiler 2024 open release
77% of a full autotuning search's gains, without compiling once - MTIA 2023 closed
Meta's own AI silicon
Generative Media 4
- Movie Gen 2024 closed · superseded
A sentence in, a 16-second film with its own score out - Emu 2023 closed · superseded
A few thousand perfect photos beat millions of mediocre ones - Emu Video & Emu Edit 2023 closed · superseded
Two Emu offshoots: 4-second clips and edit-by-instruction — demos only - Make-A-Video 2022 closed · superseded
Text-to-video before it was normal
Games & Strategy 4
- CICERO 2022 open release
It won Diplomacy by out-talking humans — and no one called it out - ReBeL 2020 open release
AlphaZero for hidden-information games — the poker code stayed locked - Pluribus 2019 closed
Superhuman six-player poker for $150 of compute - ELF OpenGo 2018 open release · archived
20-0 against Go professionals, on a single GPU — then open-sourced
Safety & Trust 4
- LlamaFirewall 2025 open release
Prompt-injection success rate: 17.6% without, 1.7% with - Purple Llama 2023 open release
Open-source safety tooling for open models - CyberSecEval 2023 open release
Can your model break code — and can it patch it? - GAIA Benchmark 2023 open release
466 questions: humans scored 92%, GPT-4 with plugins scored 15%
Don't just read about the models — touch them
The Lab runs real Meta models, right here, no cloud involved.
Segment Anything
Click any object — the actual SAM decoder runs in your browser via WebAssembly.
📸Cut out your own photo
EfficientSAM, encoder and all, runs on your picture inside this tab. Nothing is uploaded.
🌈How DINOv2 sees
Slide between a photo and its self-supervised feature map — no labels, pure structure.
🔤OPT vs Llama 3 tokens
Type anything and watch two real tokenizers chop it up. Hindi costs 57 tokens, then 21.
🌍200 languages
One sentence through NLLB-200's eyes — every language, every script, instantly.
🎵MusicGen jukebox
Pick a mood, hear what the model composed. Real outputs, generated offline.
More ways in
Take the tour
Thirteen stops with the camera flying between them — the whole story in about three minutes.
🌳Family trees
LLaMA → Llama 4 → Muse; SAM → SAM 3 → SAM Audio — every lineage untangled, generation by generation.
⏱️Watch it form
Play the time-lapse: a decade of research igniting star by star, 2016 to 2026.
🎯Which Meta model?
A quick quiz built from the catalog — guess the project from a single fact. Streaks included.
⚖️Meta vs the frontier
The uncomfortable page: how Meta compares to OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and the open-weight challengers — including where it trails.
📄The papers
Every study behind the catalog in one sortable table, with how often the field has cited each one back.
📊By the numbers
Projects per year, open vs closed, every documented model size — and live stars, citations and downloads.
📖How this was built
Sources, verification, licenses, and a start-here path for newcomers and researchers.