Meta AI Updates: May 2, 2026

1. Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence for Humanoid AI Push

Meta. Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate its work on AI models targeted at robotic systems, signaling that the company’s humanoid ambitions now have an in-house team focused on the policy and perception side rather than only the foundation-model side. The deal continues Meta’s pattern of buying capability-specific teams as it widens the Llama-and-beyond portfolio toward embodied AI, where Tesla, Figure, and 1X have set the public pace. The relevant question for practitioners is which parts of Assured’s stack will surface as open weights or open tools, given Meta’s history of releasing infrastructure even when models stay proprietary. Source