Meta Fundamental AI Research

Meta's foundational AI research lab, known for open models like Segment Anything, DINO, V-JEPA, and the Habitat simulator.

FAIR is Meta's (formerly Facebook's) fundamental AI research division, founded in 2013 as Facebook AI Research with Yann LeCun as its first lab director. Its original lab was in New York, and it later grew teams in Menlo Park, London, and Paris, among other locations. It has produced a long list of results relevant to embodied AI: the Segment Anything Model (SAM) family, the self-supervised vision models DINOv2 and DINOv3, the video world model V-JEPA 2, the indoor-navigation simulator Habitat, and the DIGIT and Digit 360 visuotactile sensors. Most of these are open-sourced and widely used as building blocks in robotics research. In 2025, Meta folded FAIR and its large-model teams into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL); LeCun left the company in November 2025 to found AMI Labs, a world-model startup.

ExampleMany manipulation policies use DINOv2 as their vision encoder and SAM to cut the target object's mask out of an image.

Also called

FAIR, Facebook AI Research, Meta AI

Related

V-JEPA 2 · Segment Anything Model · DINOv2 · Habitat · DIGIT Visuotactile Sensor · Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

Sources

Meta AI - Wikipedia
Yann LeCun - Wikipedia

As of

2026-03