Owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and publisher of open multilingual models such as Llama and SeamlessM4T.
Meta Platforms, founded as Facebook in 2004, operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, serving billions of users in well over a hundred languages. Its AI research group has released some of the most influential open multilingual models, including the No Language Left Behind (NLLB) translation model covering 200 languages, the SeamlessM4T speech-to-speech translation models, and the Llama family of open large language models. Meta also uses AI dubbing and automatic translation for Reels and ads. Its open releases lower the barrier for startups and LSPs building their own translation and speech systems, and its content-moderation needs make it a large consumer of multilingual data and linguistic services.