Meta
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Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | http://www.facebook.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, Meta researchers released3,283 AI research articles
- #8in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 123.84citations per AI article on average (#10 in PARAT, #4 in the S&P 500)
- 1,068highly cited articles (#3 in PARAT, #3 in the S&P 500)
- -8.1%growth in Meta's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 1,350articles at top AI conferences (#8 in PARAT, #5 in the S&P 500)
- 55%of Meta's total public research was AI-focused
Meta's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 1094 | 188.2 | 1.18 |
| NLP publications | 880 | 126.6 | -18.81 |
| Robotics publications | 174 | 45.2 | 5.58 |
| AI safety publications | 250 | 377 | -15.56 |
| Large language model publications | 856 | 146.1 | 3.83 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Meta filed1,081 AI-related patents
- #29in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- -23.6%growth in Meta's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 668AI-related patents were granted to Meta (2017–2020)
- 12.5%of Meta's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Meta's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 312 | 7.57% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 166 | -64.99% |
| Speech processing patents | 75 | 37.19% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 71 | -39.13% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 52 | 30% |
Top use cases across Meta's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 685 | -20.36% |
| Telecommunications patents | 338 | -23.61% |
| Business patents | 237 | -47.48% |
| Networks patents | 224 | -25.03% |
| Security patents | 38 | -24.63% |
1,902
AI jobs
According to our data, Meta currently employs about 1,902 AI workers (#18 rank in PARAT, #15 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
13,309
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Meta currently employs about 13,309 Tech Team 1 workers (#28 rank in PARAT, #21 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.