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Chairman / President

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO / Managing Director

Mark Zuckerberg

CFO / Finance Director

Susan Li

Industry

Technology, Social Media

Website

meta.com

Headquarters address

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:META

Year founded

2004

Artificial intelligence

Meta sees role reversal as it adopts Alibaba’s Qwen to train AI models

Throughout 2023 and 2024, Chinese firms keen to catch up with the US used Meta’s Llama to help them build their own models.

13 Dec 2025 - 10:39AM

China Future Tech briefing

AI | China chases superintelligent AI without sci-fi movie risks

12 Dec 2025 - 1:18PM

Artificial intelligence

AI race: Meta reportedly uses Alibaba’s Qwen for its ‘Avocado’ model

11 Dec 2025 - 7:00PM

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng among top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

British journal Nature’s top 10 list gives credit to the man behind the widely acclaimed, Chinese-developed R1 reasoning AI model.

9 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng. Photo: Shutterstock

Fame and celebrity

5 of the most extravagant celebrity Christmas decorations

Kim Kardashian was just lambasted for her ‘tacky’ Christmas display – but her sister Kourtney, Paris Hilton and Cardi B tend to go all out for the holidays too.

8 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Bill Gates’ daughter lands US$30 million for star-backed AI firm

The capital raise will value the start-up at US$180 million and comes just months after Phia completed its first US$8 million funding round.

5 Dec 2025 - 11:15AM

Facebook

Meta plans budget cuts as high as 30% to its metaverse efforts

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision has not taken off despite his conviction that people will one day work and play in virtual worlds.

5 Dec 2025 - 10:19AM

A visitor tries a Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset. Photo: AP

VR and AR

Ex-Apple engineer unveils chip to rival Vision Pro for XR headsets, AI glasses

The Jizhi G-X100 features a photon-to-photon latency of just 9 milliseconds, faster than 12 ms for Apple’s Vision Pro.

3 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

Australia

Fight’s over: YouTube becomes last major platform to accept Australia’s age rule

Despite agreeing to comply, YouTube maintains that it is still ‘fundamentally different’ from other social media services.

3 Dec 2025 - 10:52AM

Alibaba

Alibaba launches US$537 Quark AI glasses to challenge devices from Meta, Xiaomi

The glasses are expected to ‘usher in a revolution in human-computer interaction in the AI era’, Alibaba vice-president Wu Jia says.

27 Nov 2025 - 8:58PM

Alibaba Group Holding’s Quark AI Glasses are named after the company’s Quark AI assistant. Photo: Handout

China Future Tech briefing

AI | Smart-glasses makers see AI as long-awaited must-have app

Chinese smart-glasses makers, such as Rokid and Alibaba, and global giant Meta are counting on artificial intelligence to kick-start demand for the devices.

27 Nov 2025 - 5:46PM

Smart-glasses makers see AI as long-awaited must-have app

Artificial intelligence

AI scaling hasn’t reached a dead end yet, Chinese Google scientist says

Pouring money into increasing computation resources and training data can still yield better AI models, Yao Shunyu says.

27 Nov 2025 - 10:07AM

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI start-up takes on Google in tensor processing unit race

Zhonghao Xinying was founded in 2018 by Yanggong Yifan, a Stanford and University of Michigan-trained electrical engineer.

26 Nov 2025 - 6:32PM

Australia

Australia’s under-16 social media ban faces high court challenge

Critics say the world-first law, effective next month, infringes on political communication rights. Australia lacks an express free speech right.

26 Nov 2025 - 5:50PMvideocam

A 14-year-old boy browses social media on his phone. Starting December 10, Australia will mandate that social media platforms remove users under 16. Photo: AFP

Singapore

Singapore tells TikTok, Meta to block accounts of man fanning racial tension

Singapore said Zulfikar ‘repeatedly continued to stir up discontent within the local Malay/Muslim community against the Chinese community’.

26 Nov 2025 - 3:37PM

Singapore skyline. The city state has accused an Australian citizen of inciting racial disharmony. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks

Meta is reportedly in talks to use Google’s TPUs in data centres, as the search giant challenges Nvidia’s market dominance.

26 Nov 2025 - 10:19AM

Singapore

Singapore orders Apple, Google to stop fake government message scams

Police told the tech giants to block spoofed government accounts on iMessage and Google Messages to tackle rising fraud threats.

25 Nov 2025 - 3:30PM

Artificial intelligence

AI pioneer Yann LeCun leaving Meta to launch start-up

LeCun joined the company in 2013 to create Facebook AI Research, the in-house lab that helped transform Meta into one of the AI leaders.

20 Nov 2025 - 9:41AM

Yann LeCun has been a key part of Meta’s AI ambitions for more than a decade. Photo: AFP

Nvidia

Nvidia’s latest earnings run into a market suddenly afraid of AI spending

Analysts expect the AI chip behemoth to show more than 50 per cent growth in both net income and revenue in its financial third quarter.

19 Nov 2025 - 2:36PM

United States

Meta defeats US antitrust case over Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions

The ruling gives Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in Trump’s first term.

19 Nov 2025 - 7:19AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Tencent expands into AI ‘world models’ as tech giants chase spatial intelligence

Tencent is developing physics-aware ‘world models’ to advance spatial intelligence, joining global players such as DeepMind and xAI.

14 Nov 2025 - 1:31AM

A Hunyuan world model. Spatial intelligence has been described as AI’s ‘next frontier’. Photo: Handout

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US

The start-up plans to build data centres in Texas, New York and other locations in partnership with UK firm Fluidstack.

13 Nov 2025 - 10:13AM

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. Photo: AP

Artificial intelligence

Meta Platforms’ AI lay-offs triggered by resource competition: ex-researcher

Tian Yuandong says internal conflicts emerged at Meta as LLM development became the industry-wide focus.

13 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

Artificial intelligence

Big Tech firms bet big on AI glasses, as Ant offers iris authentication

Heavyweights including Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi are vying to dominate what a market research firm calls a ‘war of 100 smart glasses’.

12 Nov 2025 - 8:08PM

Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

In a Reddit forum, a Moonshot AI executive says start-up is ‘outnumbered’ by US rivals in terms of ‘high-end GPUs’ used for training models.

14 Nov 2025 - 8:31AM

Kimi K2 Thinking was trained on Nvidia’s older H800 graphics processing units, according to a Moonshot AI executive. Photo: Shutterstock

Semiconductors

Semiconductor giant TSMC posts slowest growth in 18 months amid AI bubble debate

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is the go-to chipmaker for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Apple.

11 Nov 2025 - 2:43PM

TSMC posted a 16.9 per cent rise in sales for October, the slowest pace since February 2024. Photo: AP

Malaysia

Meta disagrees with Malaysia’s social media licensing framework, proposes talks

Malaysia says its licensing rules are aimed at curbing scams, online gambling and child pornography.

29 Oct 2025 - 5:33PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI star slams Meta after lay-offs hit hundreds in research unit

Facebook owner’s decision to fire hundreds of AI scientists, including star researcher Tian Yuandong, has exposed divisions in the company.

24 Oct 2025 - 6:00PM

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Meta sees role reversal as it adopts Alibaba’s Qwen to train AI models

Throughout 2023 and 2024, Chinese firms keen to catch up with the US used Meta’s Llama to help them build their own models.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}AI | China chases superintelligent AI without sci-fi movie risks

AI race: Meta reportedly uses Alibaba’s Qwen for its ‘Avocado’ model

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng among top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’

British journal Nature’s top 10 list gives credit to the man behind the widely acclaimed, Chinese-developed R1 reasoning AI model.

5 of the most extravagant celebrity Christmas decorations

Kim Kardashian was just lambasted for her ‘tacky’ Christmas display – but her sister Kourtney, Paris Hilton and Cardi B tend to go all out for the holidays too.

Bill Gates’ daughter lands US$30 million for star-backed AI firm

The capital raise will value the start-up at US$180 million and comes just months after Phia completed its first US$8 million funding round.

Meta plans budget cuts as high as 30% to its metaverse efforts

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision has not taken off despite his conviction that people will one day work and play in virtual worlds.

Ex-Apple engineer unveils chip to rival Vision Pro for XR headsets, AI glasses

The Jizhi G-X100 features a photon-to-photon latency of just 9 milliseconds, faster than 12 ms for Apple’s Vision Pro.

Fight’s over: YouTube becomes last major platform to accept Australia’s age rule

Despite agreeing to comply, YouTube maintains that it is still ‘fundamentally different’ from other social media services.

Alibaba launches US$537 Quark AI glasses to challenge devices from Meta, Xiaomi

The glasses are expected to ‘usher in a revolution in human-computer interaction in the AI era’, Alibaba vice-president Wu Jia says.

AI | Smart-glasses makers see AI as long-awaited must-have app

Chinese smart-glasses makers, such as Rokid and Alibaba, and global giant Meta are counting on artificial intelligence to kick-start demand for the devices.

AI scaling hasn’t reached a dead end yet, Chinese Google scientist says

Pouring money into increasing computation resources and training data can still yield better AI models, Yao Shunyu says.

Chinese AI start-up takes on Google in tensor processing unit race

Zhonghao Xinying was founded in 2018 by Yanggong Yifan, a Stanford and University of Michigan-trained electrical engineer.

Australia’s under-16 social media ban faces high court challenge

Critics say the world-first law, effective next month, infringes on political communication rights. Australia lacks an express free speech right.

Singapore tells TikTok, Meta to block accounts of man fanning racial tension

Singapore said Zulfikar ‘repeatedly continued to stir up discontent within the local Malay/Muslim community against the Chinese community’.

Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks

Meta is reportedly in talks to use Google’s TPUs in data centres, as the search giant challenges Nvidia’s market dominance.

Singapore orders Apple, Google to stop fake government message scams

Police told the tech giants to block spoofed government accounts on iMessage and Google Messages to tackle rising fraud threats.

AI pioneer Yann LeCun leaving Meta to launch start-up

LeCun joined the company in 2013 to create Facebook AI Research, the in-house lab that helped transform Meta into one of the AI leaders.

Nvidia’s latest earnings run into a market suddenly afraid of AI spending

Analysts expect the AI chip behemoth to show more than 50 per cent growth in both net income and revenue in its financial third quarter.

Meta defeats US antitrust case over Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions

The ruling gives Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in Trump’s first term.

Tencent expands into AI ‘world models’ as tech giants chase spatial intelligence

Tencent is developing physics-aware ‘world models’ to advance spatial intelligence, joining global players such as DeepMind and xAI.

Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US

The start-up plans to build data centres in Texas, New York and other locations in partnership with UK firm Fluidstack.

Meta Platforms’ AI lay-offs triggered by resource competition: ex-researcher

Tian Yuandong says internal conflicts emerged at Meta as LLM development became the industry-wide focus.

Big Tech firms bet big on AI glasses, as Ant offers iris authentication

Heavyweights including Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi are vying to dominate what a market research firm calls a ‘war of 100 smart glasses’.

China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

In a Reddit forum, a Moonshot AI executive says start-up is ‘outnumbered’ by US rivals in terms of ‘high-end GPUs’ used for training models.

Semiconductor giant TSMC posts slowest growth in 18 months amid AI bubble debate

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is the go-to chipmaker for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Apple.

Meta disagrees with Malaysia’s social media licensing framework, proposes talks

Malaysia says its licensing rules are aimed at curbing scams, online gambling and child pornography.

Chinese AI star slams Meta after lay-offs hit hundreds in research unit

Facebook owner’s decision to fire hundreds of AI scientists, including star researcher Tian Yuandong, has exposed divisions in the company.

AI | China chases superintelligent AI without sci-fi movie risks