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A to Z
- 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
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Local (open weights, research license)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- 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
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Not sold (research model)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.45
- R · What Makes It Special
- Byte-level LLM architecture that groups raw bytes into dynamically sized patches based on next-byte entropy, matching tokenization-based models at scale with better inference efficiency and robustness; studied up to 8B parameters.
- 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 LLM from Meta AI, released 2024.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“BLT.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/meta-ai-blt.html
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