The goal of Meta AI Research is to do open research, not necessarily with direct applications at the time we start it. Indeed, the architecture, or the lessons

The goal of Meta AI Research is to do open research, not necessarily with direct applications at the time we start it. Indeed, the architecture, or the lessons learnt working on it can become useful later for the company, for instance for remote presence with VR, to isolate the main speaker from its environnement ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.15423.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.15423.pdf ).