Company

Meta

🇺🇸 Menlo Park, United States

Founded2004

Meta combines AI deployed across its social apps and smart glasses with model research at Meta Superintelligence Labs.^[1] Its work spans Llama and the Muse family, including Muse Wonder^[2] and open-weight Muse Spark Open^[3], alongside a research legacy that includes FAIR and PyTorch.^[4]

Current members 84

Mark Zuckerberg Founder, Chairman and CEO Alexandr Wang Chief AI Officer Dina Powell McCormick President and Vice Chairman Shengjia Zhao Chief Scientist Clara Shih VP, Head of Business AI Daniel Gross VP Product Nat Friedman VP, AI Products Rob Fergus VP Abdel-rahman Mohamed Research Director Annie Hu Director of Product, MSL Dylan Scandinaro Head of Preparedness Holger Schwenk Research Director

Former members 212

Aakanksha Chowdhery Stanford University Aaron Defazio OpenAI Abdulrahman Alfozan Independent Abhinav Gupta Skild AI, Carnegie Mellon University Adi Ganesh OpenAI Aditya Grover Inception, UCLA Adly Templeton Anthropic Ahmad Al-Dahle Airbnb Ahmad Beirami Fidian Albert Q. Jiang Mistral AI Alethea Power Independent Alex LeBrun AMI Labs, Nabla

Mentioned in updates 8

MoveStella Kaval to join Anthropic

The Meta software engineer announced her move on X. Her departure post gives an October 13 start date.

October 6, 2026 MoveKonstantin Mishchenko joins Mistral AI’s pretraining team

The researcher behind adaptive training methods joins Mistral after leaving Meta in August.

October 6, 2026 MoveAaron Defazio joins OpenAI from Meta

The researcher behind Schedule-Free learning joins OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff.

September 26, 2026 MoveVikas Chandra joins Atoms as VP of AI

The former Meta Reality Labs senior director and distinguished scientist has joined Atoms to lead AI work on foundation models for the physical world.

September 14, 2026 MoveDylan Scandinaro moves from OpenAI to Meta as Head of Preparedness

Scandinaro’s LinkedIn lists a September 2026 start at Meta. The entry date reflects reporting on 3 September, not a confirmed first day.

September 3, 2026 MoveItay Evron joins NVIDIA from Meta

The continual-learning researcher announced his move to NVIDIA after working in Meta’s Central Applied Science organization.

August 30, 2026 MoveJang Hyun (Vincent) Cho joins Thinking Machines Lab

The computer-vision researcher joined Thinking Machines Lab after nearly two years at Meta, where he worked on multimodal pretraining and the Muse and Spark model family.

August 26, 2026 MoveArtem Zholus joins AMI Labs

The world-models researcher has joined AMI Labs as a Member of Technical Staff after visiting research work at Meta.

August 16, 2026

References

Meta — Introducing Muse Sparkabout.fb.com
Official model announcement and May update verify MSL and deployment across social apps and glasses.
Meta — Muse Wonderresearch.meta.ai
October 2026 model announcement documents newer agent models.
Meta — Muse Spark Openresearch.meta.ai
October 2026 announcement verifies released weights under a custom license; not described as unrestricted open source.
Meta — FAIR turns fiveai.meta.com
Official historical research account describes FAIR and PyTorch; legacy wording does not imply PyTorch remains solely Meta-governed.

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