Emu

Meta AI · 2023 · Image Generation · USA

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Meta AI
C · CEO & Politics: Mark Zuckerberg — Centrist / shifted right 2024–26; accommodative of Trump admin; July 2026 WSJ op-ed on distributed superintelligence
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Images
H · Deployment: Cloud
I · Inputs: Text→Image
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Alexandr Wang (Chief AI Officer, Meta Superintelligence Labs), Nat Friedman (MSL co-lead), Chris Cox (Chief Product Officer)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Image Generation
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Proprietary
P · Pricing: Not sold (research model)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Meta's Emu text-to-image model: a latent diffusion model pretrained on 1.1 billion image-text pairs, then quality-tuned on a few thousand carefully selected, highly aesthetic images; Meta reports it won 82.9% of comparisons against its pretrained-only version and was preferred over SDXL 1.0 for visual appeal 68.4% and 71.3% of the time on two benchmarks.
S · Stock / Status: $752 (META, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: API only
X · X Handle: @AIatMeta
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Proprietary Image Generation from Meta AI, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗

“Emu.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/emu.html