Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Meta

Was camp 2 under LeCun; now camp 1 under Wang. FAIR still does V-JEPA.

Ticker
NASDAQ:META
HQ
Menlo Park
Founded
Feb 2004
Web
meta.com
Camps
LLM scaling World models

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What it does

Meta ran the largest world-model research effort under LeCun at FAIR, then in June 2025 reorganized around Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang and put its money into frontier language models. Its Behemoth model was abandoned; the Muse family is hosted rather than open-weight. FAIR continues under Rob Fergus.

Camp membership over time

  1. Dec 2013 – Dec 2025
    World models
    FAIR under LeCun: JEPA and V-JEPA as the road to autonomous machine intelligence.
    Sources Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving the company CNBC 2025-11-19
  2. Jun 2025 – now
    Scale next-token prediction
    Meta Superintelligence Labs (TBD Lab under Wang) went all-in on frontier LLMs after LeCun left. Muse models are hosted, not open.
    Sources Mark Zuckerberg creating Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo CNBC 2025-06-30 · Meta Superintelligence Labs: what we know so far Built In 2026-03-10
  3. Dec 2025 – now
    World models (secondary)
    FAIR still does V-JEPA under Rob Fergus.
    Sources Meta Superintelligence Labs: what we know so far Built In 2026-03-10

Capital

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People

MAMahmoud AssranResearch scientist, FAIR
NBNicolas BallasResearch scientist
RFRob FergusHead of FAIR
Nat FriedmanCo-lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs
IMIshan MisraResearch scientist, FAIR
LPLerrel PintoAssistant professor
KSKoustuv SinhaResearch scientist
DSDawn SongProfessor; VP of AI research
PVPascal VincentResearch scientist, FAIR; professor, Université de Montréal
Alexandr WangChief AI officer; leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and TBD Lab
XWXiaolong WangAssociate professor; research director
LZLuke ZettlemoyerSenior research director; professor, University of Washington
Yann LeCunChief AI scientist, FAIR (until Dec 2025)
Joëlle PineauVP of AI research, FAIR (until May 2025)

General sources

Mark Zuckerberg creating Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo CNBC 2025-06-30 · Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3 MarkTechPost 2026-09-03 · Meta Releases Muse Spark 1.3 Model for Longer Tool-Based Work WinBuzzer 2026-09-04