Meta AI / Meta Superintelligence Labs

Frontier labFounded 2013 (FAIR); Superintelligence Labs 2025 · US

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Meta's AI division, historically the leading open-weights frontier lab (Llama), now pursuing 'personal superintelligence'.

Meta championed open-weight AI with Llama but refused Europe's voluntary code and is now moving toward closed models in its race for superintelligence. Independent graders rank its safety practices near the bottom.

Focus

  • Open source
  • Safety evaluations

Funding, as far as we know

Corporate (Meta Platforms) - https://investor.atmeta.com/

What they've actually done

  • Won summary judgment that training Llama on books was fair use on the record presented (Kadrey v. Meta), with the judge warning the ruling was fact-specific

    25 June 2025

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  • Refused to sign the EU GPAI Code of Practice, calling it overreach

    18 July 2025

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  • Signalled a shift to releasing closed frontier models first under Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs, departing from Llama's open policy

    6 April 2026

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  • Graded D (1.10/5) in FLI's Winter 2025 AI Safety Index

    2025-12

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Last verified 1 September 2026

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