Facebook was first to the punch on AI photo tagging and facial recognition in their systems, but they also did a lot of foundational research on GANs and self-s

Facebook was first to the punch on AI photo tagging and facial recognition in their systems, but they also did a lot of foundational research on GANs and self-supervised learning. Plus, they do a lot of other tangential research around language and life sciences that might not get funded otherwise. Some of it is marketing bullshit, but Facebook seems to have a genuine interest in pushing the field forward. Admittedly Google is also not the best example though, seeing as they're the Tensorflow maintainers :p