Meta is the US technology company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and one of the largest developers of artificial intelligence. It builds the open-weight Llama models and the proprietary Muse family, runs the Meta AI assistant across its apps, and invests heavily in AI data centers and research. This hub gathers news and explainers about Meta’s models, products, and strategy.
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
Read more →Meta has begun construction on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Alberta — its first in Canada and 33rd globally, backed by a CAD $13 billion investment.
Read more →Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →Meta now builds two separate AI model families: the open-weight Llama and the new proprietary Muse. Here's how they differ, and how to try either one.
Read more →Meta Superintelligence Labs opened a public preview of Muse Spark 1.1, a paid agentic coding model with a 1-million-token context window, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read more →Meta's new AI image generator, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now live across its apps — but talent agency CAA says its opt-out design misuses people's likenesses without consent.
Read more →Meta's non-invasive AI system translates brain activity to typed text with 61% word accuracy — nearly eight times better than prior implant-free approaches — targeting people who cannot communicate due to brain injuries.
Read more →At an internal town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded that AI agent development has not "accelerated in the way" the company expected, despite a $145 billion infrastructure commitment and a major workforce reorganization.
Read more →Meta's superintelligence chief told employees that the company's next model, codenamed Watermelon, has caught up to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks — though the specific tests and results have not been disclosed.
Read more →Meta's non-invasive AI system converts MEG brain recordings into typed text at 61% word accuracy — a seven-fold leap over prior non-invasive approaches and a step toward surgery-free brain-computer interfaces.
Read more →A WIRED investigation reveals Meta's secret "Project Cannes" used hundreds of workers posing as underage users to send crisis prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI — without the companies' knowledge.
Read more →Google told Meta in March it could not supply the computing capacity Meta had requested for its Gemini AI usage, disrupting internal projects and forcing Meta to push employees toward its own models.
Read more →Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
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