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Meta

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Meta platforms (NASDAQ: META) is a technology conglomerate operating Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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Founded
2004
HQ
Menlo Park, California, USA
Status
Public

The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Meta: 2 models, 4 deployments across 3 regions. 16 sources back the record.

PublicNASDAQ: META

CategoryWearable AI

Models

2

Deployments

4

Overview

Meta platforms (NASDAQ: META) is a technology conglomerate operating Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meta's AI research (FAIR) and Reality Labs develop AI, VR/AR, and robotics technologies. Acquired CTRL-Labs for neural interface technology and invests in embodied AI research.

Verified record

Verified deployments
4 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Wearables

Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses with EssilorLuxottica, about 7M units in 2025 (company-stated); acquired Limitless in Dec 2025.

AI and robotics

FAIR research and Reality Labs, including embodied AI and humanoid work; acquired CTRL-labs (neural interfaces) in 2019.

Nuclear PPAs with Vistra (Jan 2026)

20-year deals for 2,609 MW from Perry, Davis-Besse and Beaver Valley, delivering from late 2026 and in full by 2034.

R&D tax credits (reported, Sep 2026)

Classified parts of its AI data centers and chips as 'pilot models' for research tax credits, worth about $3.9B in 2025, per The New York Times. Meta flags IRS clawback risk.

NAVA-WAM LIBERO / RoboTwin (research-stated, Oct 2026)

Meta AI NAVA-WAM reports LIBERO 99.0%, LIBERO-Plus 83.5%, RoboTwin 2.0 Clean 88.5% and Random 73.6% (+17.9 vs best baseline on Random).

NAVA-WAM real Franka (research-stated, Oct 2026)

On a physical Franka FR3, NAVA-WAM reports 14/15 successes (93.3%) vs DreamZero 66.7% and pi0.5 53.3% across three tabletop tasks.

NAVA-WAM method (research-stated, Oct 2026)

Learns action priors from observation-only video via future-video flow matching into an Action-DiT, then post-trains on robot demos for action-only inference.

Senate DC cost probe (reported, Oct 2026)

Warren/Van Hollen/Blumenthal report finds named AI DC operators are not covering full grid costs, still seek tax breaks, and use NDAs that limit community scrutiny of projects.

Mason County, KY campus (government-stated, Oct 2026)

Fiscal Court approved a development agreement on Oct 13 2026 with Meta entity Crisham LLC: phase one is one 396 MW data center on about 2,900 acres, up to six buildings in all.

Mason County terms (government-stated, Oct 2026)

No property tax; PILOTs of $5M a year to the county and $2M to schools per phase. Meta pays for grid upgrades. Contingent on Kentucky KEDFA incentive approval.

Data & sources

Press releases

1

Research

1

Web sources

14

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Partnerships

Every company Meta has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

3 total2 operating1 just announced1 ended

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Limitless1× joint1 total
  2. 2Nebius1× joint5 total
  3. 3Scale AI1× joint

Most recent

  1. Meta acquires Limitless2025-12-05
    with Limitlessoperating
  2. Nebius x Meta (GPU capacity)2025-11-11
    with Nebiusoperating
  3. Meta x Scale AI (49% investment)2025-06-12
    with Scale AIjust announced

Meta on the deployment map

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Relationships

NNebiusTechnology partnerSScale AIPartnerLLimitlessPartnerMMetaCustomer

Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Meta, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What is an AI wearable?
An AI wearable is a body-worn device whose primary value comes from AI inference on captured sensor input (voice, camera, biosensors) rather than from the wearable hardware itself. The category spans pins, pendants, glasses, and audio devices. As of mid-2026 DEPLOY tracks 7 entities with 3 distinct operational states: commercial active (Plaud NotePin, Friend Pendant, Bee Wearable, Meta Ray-Ban), pilot active (Rabbit r1), and commercial discontinued (Humane AI Pin, Limitless Pendant). The Big Tech acquires pattern is the editorial throughline: Humane to HP, Bee to Amazon, Limitless to Meta.Read the full explainer →
What is Meta Ray-Ban?
Meta Ray-Ban is the camera-and-microphone smart glasses platform developed jointly by Meta (Reality Labs division) and EssilorLuxottica's Ray-Ban brand. The Gen 2 base configuration starts at approximately $299; higher configurations (Display variants, Oakley Meta HSTN) exist. AI features include Meta AI voice assistant, photo/video capture, live translation, and Look-and-Ask multimodal queries. Per DEPLOY's framework, Meta Ray-Ban is the canonical AI-augmented commercial wearables case: a wearable that has shipped what it promised. Meta has cited 'millions' of units publicly; specific verified figure cap-flagged per registry-source-of-truth discipline. Maturity: commercial active.Read the full explainer →
What is the best AI wearable in 2026?
There is no single best AI wearable in 2026; the right pick depends on use case, AI substance tier, and maturity. Per DEPLOY's framework: for visual assistance + genuine cloud AI shipping at consumer-deployment scale, Meta Ray-Ban anchors the Western verified-commercial position and Rokid anchors the non-Western. For audio-first capture and recall, Plaud (capture) and Friend (ambient) operate genuine cloud AI at commercial active. For developer-accessible / open-source orientation, Brilliant Labs Frame + Halo. For pilot-stage multi-purpose with marketing-vs-shipped gap, Rabbit r1. For commercial-discontinued failure context, Humane AI Pin. Trade-press 'best of' listicles collapse the axes; the right pick differs by buyer.Read the full explainer →
What are the different types of wearable AI?
Wearable AI sorts along two intersecting axes per DEPLOY's framework. Form factor: smart glasses with display (Brilliant Labs Frame variants), smart glasses without display (Meta Ray-Ban base variants; Rokid; audio-first), audio-only smart glasses (Solos AirGo Vision), pendant recorders (Humane AI Pin; Friend Pendant; Plaud NotePin variants), and adjacent uncovered sub-categories (smart rings / smart watches / AI earbuds). AI substance tier: genuine cloud AI / moderate open-source / partner-mediated / veneer per Agent A's spectrum. Cross-referencing the axes produces the cohort's editorial typology; smart rings, smart watches, and AI earbuds are gaps in DEPLOY's current registry surfaced honestly as editorial signal.Read the full explainer →
What does wearable AI do?
Wearable AI does six things at different verification depths per DEPLOY's framework: (1) visual Q&A on what the camera sees (Meta Ray-Ban Look-and-Ask; Rokid; Brilliant Labs; Solos GPT-4o); (2) live translation across languages (Meta + Rokid with offline mode + Solos); (3) capture & summarize voice + transcripts (Plaud; Friend; Bee; Omi pending registry); (4) ambient recall of conversations + context (Bee; Friend; Omi pending registry); (5) smartphone replacement promised but verified-as-failed (Humane discontinued; Rabbit r1 marketing-vs-shipped gap); (6) health monitoring (uncovered in current DEPLOY cohort; Oura, Apple Watch, Fitbit are canonical contenders DEPLOY hasn't yet registered). The canonical wearable AI question conflates 'what is marketed' with 'what is verified-shipped'; DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed framework fixes the conflation.Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (4)

Founders (1)

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Former / Previously (10)

  • Jake Stelman Software engineer (Facebook)secondary-verified
  • Lior Wolf Research scientist / director, FAIR (former)secondary-verified
  • Yan Li Senior engineer (Facebook)secondary-verified
  • Justin Johnson Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR)secondary-verified
  • Abhinav Gupta Founding member, FAIR Pittsburghsecondary-verified
  • Deepak Pathak Researcher (FAIR, with Jitendra Malik)secondary-verified
  • Antoine Bordes Co-managing director, FAIRsecondary-verified
  • Jason Ma Research Scientist (Meta AI)secondary-verified
  • Josh Merel Employee at CTRL-labs (acquired by Facebook 2019)2017 to 2019reported, not verified
  • Rob Cochran Employee at CTRL-labs (acquired by Facebook 2019)2017 to 2019reported, not verified

Media (1)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Meta.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Meta on the data-center map

Every verified data center Meta operates that has a mapped coordinate (59 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Meta data centers (60)

AI data centers Meta operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Operator customers (1)

Brains developed (1)

Recent coverage

Meta in third-party press

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Peers

35 peers across 1 segment. Every Meta competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

wearable(35)

32 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 2595.3892239124602) · leader Oculus VR at 4361%

Mentioned on (54)

Registry pages whose text names Meta.

Robots and products (4)

Ray-Ban Meta, Stream, Bee, Limitless Pendant

AI systems (2)

TrackEverything, V-JEPA 2

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