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World leader in social technology, Instagram, WhatsApp, open-source Llama AI, and Quest spatial computing.

Overview & Mission

Meta Platforms, Inc. is the world's leading social technology and spatial computing conglomerate, connecting more than 3.2 billion daily active people across its family of apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger. Founded in 2004 as Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg, Meta transformed modern global communication, social networking, and digital commerce.

Meta is a pioneer in open-source artificial intelligence, releasing the acclaimed Llama model family to empower global developers, academia, and enterprise builders with frontier open-weights intelligence. Concurrently, Reality Labs develops groundbreaking virtual and augmented reality hardware, including the Meta Quest headsets and the Orion holographic augmented reality glasses.

Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. The company is investing heavily in open-source AI infrastructure, custom MTIA silicon, and the spatial computing metaverse to define the next computing platform after mobile smartphones.