The people who make Meta, Meta.

Thank you for building the platforms that connected billions of people and for betting the company on open research and open-source AI that the whole field now stands on.

Thank you for building News Feed and Messenger in the early days and for leading Reality Labs' long, patient bet on Orion and the next computing platform.

Thank you for shaping the product soul of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, and for keeping people at the center of every product decision for nearly two decades.

Thank you for stewarding Meta's finances through the reality-labs investment years with the discipline and candor that let the research and product teams keep building.

Thank you for the international growth work that carried Facebook into new languages and markets and helped its apps reach billions of people worldwide.

Thank you for nearly twenty years of craft on growth, safety, privacy and giving tools, quietly shaping almost every major initiative the company ever shipped.

Thank you for building and scaling the engineering organization behind Meta's infrastructure and AI, and for championing the applied-AI work that made the platforms safer.

Thank you for founding FAIR and setting its open, publish-everything culture, and for a lifetime of convolutional-network work that the modern AI era is built on.

Thank you for leading FAIR through the PyTorch and Llama era and for insisting that reproducibility and open science stay at the heart of the lab.

Thank you for co-creating t-SNE, the visualization tool a generation of researchers reaches for, and for leading FAIR teams behind Llama, ESMFold and Cicero.

Thank you for the residual networks and Mask R-CNN you built at FAIR, ideas so foundational that nearly every modern vision system traces back to them.

Thank you for R-CNN and the Detectron platform, the open tools that turned object detection into something the whole research world could build on.

Thank you for leading the Segment Anything work that gave everyone a free, promptable foundation model for image and video segmentation.

Thank you for co-authoring Mask R-CNN and pushing FAIR's work on 3D understanding, research that shaped how machines perceive objects and scenes.

Thank you for leading the first Llama model at FAIR Paris and helping prove that open foundation models could be both efficient and world-class.

Thank you for your work on the Llama models and on translation research at FAIR Paris that pushed AI toward serving many languages, not just a few.

Thank you for co-creating and shepherding PyTorch, the open framework that now powers most of the world's AI research and a huge share of its products.

Thank you for the deep PyTorch internals work, from autograd to PT2 and dynamic shapes, and for the generous writing that taught the community how it all works.

Thank you for creating React, the idea that reshaped how the entire web is built and that millions of developers now reach for every day.

Thank you for leading React and React Native through their open-source years and for the JavaScript infrastructure that carried them to the world.

Thank you, vjeux, for React Native, Prettier and Yoga, tools that quietly saved developers everywhere countless hours and endless formatting arguments.

Thank you for years of deep architectural thinking on React and for pioneering Server Components, work that keeps redefining what the framework can be.

Thank you for co-creating GraphQL, the query language that changed how a generation of apps talk to their data.

Thank you for co-creating GraphQL and for tools like DataLoader and Immutable.js, then giving GraphQL a foundation so it could belong to everyone.

Thank you for creating Cassandra for Facebook's Inbox Search, a distributed database that went on to power a huge slice of the internet's data layer.

Thank you for creating RocksDB, the embedded storage engine that quietly sits under so many databases and systems that developers depend on every day.

Thank you for LZ4 and Zstandard, compression algorithms so fast and elegant that they now shrink data across databases, filesystems and clouds worldwide.

Thank you for co-creating Presto on the Facebook data team, the distributed SQL engine that made querying data at massive scale feel fast and simple.

Thank you for a career spanning Quake, Windows graphics and now Reality Labs, and for the patient scientific groundwork behind Meta's VR and AR future.

Thank you for the years you poured into Oculus as CTO, driving the mobile-VR and performance work that helped make standalone headsets real for everyone.

He has led Instagram since 2016, guiding it from a photo app to a place where more than a billion people share their lives, and he keeps showing up in public to answer the hard questions honestly.

He led WhatsApp for seven years while it grew past three billion people, standing up for default end-to-end encryption so that private messages stay private.

As Meta's VP and head of GenAI he led the Llama models that put powerful open-weight AI into the hands of builders everywhere.

A FAIR co-founder who built Facebook's image and video understanding and went on to help lead the Llama foundation-model work, all from a first-generation start.

For nearly a decade she led the data, developer, and AI infrastructure that Meta's open-source stack and models run on, at a scale few ever touch.

He co-created Redux and Create React App and taught a whole generation of developers to think in React, always with patience and generosity in the open.

She went from filing React's first outside pull request to leading React Core, helping shape the library that reframed how the web is built.

A lead author on the Llama papers, he has helped shape every generation of Meta's open models that so many builders now learn from.

He led the engineering behind Llama 2 and Llama 3 after years advancing open machine translation at FAIR, making frontier models real and shippable.

He founded Meta's Pittsburgh Reality Lab and led Codec Avatars, chasing telepresence so real that being apart can feel like sharing a room.

His SLAM and egocentric-perception research powers Project Aria, teaching machines to see the world the way a person wearing glasses does.

A PyTorch co-author whose years-long work to free Python from the GIL is now landing in CPython itself, a gift to the whole scientific-computing world.

He created TorchScript and helped build PyTorch 2, the compiler and runtime work that lets researchers' models run fast in production.

He co-founded Instagram and led it as CEO through Facebook's acquisition, building a simple, beautiful app that changed how the world shares images.

As Instagram's co-founder and CTO he scaled the app to a billion people with a tiny team, an enduring lesson in craft and restraint.

As Meta's first CISO he led security and integrity across platforms serving billions, doing the quiet, hard work of keeping people safe.