Epirus vs Meta
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Raised $250M Series D (Mar 2025). $43.6M Army follow-on contract. Leonidas Gen 2 autonomous high-power microwave counter-drone system completing Army testing Feb 2026. GD partnership for HPM on autonomous vehicles.
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Epirus develops Leonidas — a high-power microwave (HPM) directed energy system for counter-drone operations — which uses pulsed microwave energy to defeat drone swarms by disrupting electronics simultaneously across multiple targets. The company raised $250 million in Series D financing and secured a $43.6 million Army follow-on contract, with Leonidas Gen 2 completing Army testing in February 2026 and the Gen 2 Autonomous Ground Vehicle variant unveiled at Global Force 2026 in March 2026 through a partnership with General Dynamics.
Llama 4 open-source model (Scout, Maverick, Behemoth) released March 2026; Meta AI assistant deployed to 700M+ users across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook. FAIR research driving multimodal AI advances; $35B AI capex in 2025.
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Meta Platforms is a Menlo Park, California-based technology conglomerate operating the world's most widely used social media ecosystem — Facebook (3+ billion monthly active users), Instagram (2+ billion MAU), WhatsApp (2.8+ billion MAU), and Threads (launched 2023) — while investing heavily in virtual reality hardware (Meta Quest), augmented reality glasses (Meta Ray-Ban, Orion AR glasses in development), and AI research (Llama open-source model family). Listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: META), Meta generated $164.5 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 and employs approximately 74,000 people globally.
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