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title: "Meta: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Meta was a Canadian artificial intelligence company that specialized in analyzing and organizing knowledge from the text of scientific literature using machine learning. Founded in 2010 by siblings Sam Molyneux and Amy Molyneux in Toronto, Canada, and backed by institutional venture capital investors, the company developed AI-powered tools."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-meta
type: Organization
wikidata: Q17079550
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company)
website: https://www.meta.org/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Meta

> Meta was a Canadian artificial intelligence company that specialized in analyzing and organizing knowledge from the text of scientific literature using machine learning. Founded in 2010 by siblings Sam Molyneux and Amy Molyneux in Toronto, Canada, and backed by institutional venture capital investors, the company developed AI-powered tools.

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## Facts

- Category: Data and infrastructure
- Country: Canada
- Founded: 2009-01-01
- Dissolved: 2022-03-31
- Headquarters: Toronto
- Status: closed
- Website: https://www.meta.org/
- Also known as: Meta Science, Sciencescape

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Meta, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-meta#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17079550, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company)

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