Releases

Meta introduced Make-A-Scene, a multimodal generative method that gives creators scene-level control over images.

Meta released NLLB-200, a machine-translation model covering 200 languages.

Meta released the Open Pretrained Transformer family and provided OPT-175B access to researchers.

Meta open-sourced TorchRec, a PyTorch library for large-scale recommendation systems.

Meta announced the AI Research SuperCluster, a large AI supercomputer designed to train advanced models.

Facebook renamed the parent company Meta Platforms to reflect its long-term focus on building the metaverse.

Facebook AI and university partners introduced Ego4D, a large egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite.

Facebook AI introduced unsupervised speech recognition using unpaired speech audio and text.

Facebook AI released M2M-100, a multilingual machine-translation model translating directly between 100 languages.

Facebook AI introduced wav2vec 2.0 for self-supervised speech learning with limited labeled data.

Facebook AI released Detectron2, a modular object-detection and segmentation library.

Facebook agreed to acquire CTRL-labs, bringing neural-interface research into Reality Labs.

Facebook AI introduced wav2vec, a self-supervised approach to speech representation learning from raw audio.

Facebook AI released AI Habitat, a simulation platform for embodied AI research.

FAIR researchers published a transformer language model that learned biological properties from protein sequences.

Facebook open-sourced its Deep Learning Recommendation Model reference implementation.

Facebook released the Caffe2 deep-learning framework for scalable cross-platform training and deployment.

Facebook AI Research released FAISS for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.

Facebook AI Research released PyTorch, a Python-first tensor and dynamic neural-network framework.

Facebook AI Research released fastText, a library for efficient text classification and word representations.

Facebook introduced FBLearner Flow, its internal platform for managing the full lifecycle of machine-learning models.

Facebook acquired natural-language interface startup Wit.ai to strengthen conversational AI capabilities.

Facebook formed its dedicated AI research laboratory, later known as FAIR, under Yann LeCun.

Facebook completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker FB.

Facebook, the company later renamed Meta, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.