# Chris Hughes (slim) > Chris Hughes is co-founder of Facebook (now Meta Platforms). LlamaFirewall, Meta Marketing API, Meta Model API, Muse Code, Muse Glimmer 30B, Muse Spark Open and WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API) on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-hughes/index.md (~2,200 tokens) · this version ~1,980 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-hughes/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-hughes/ - Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28 - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms). ## What Chris builds - [LlamaFirewall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamafirewall.md), graded D, 51.1/100, in Guardrails & safety filters. LlamaFirewall is Meta's open-source Python library for screening an AI agent's inputs, tool results and outputs. It runs scanners for prompt injection, hidden characters, insecure generated code and goal drift, and returns allow, block or human review. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. - [Meta Marketing API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-marketing-api.md), graded B, 67.7/100, in Advertising & campaign operations. Meta's Marketing API creates and manages campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives and audiences across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, and reports performance through Ads Insights. It is a versioned Graph API with OAuth access tokens. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. - [Meta Model API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.md), graded D, 52.5/100, in Model APIs & inference. Meta Model API is Meta's pay-as-you-go API for its hosted Muse models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, through OpenAI-style Responses and Chat Completions endpoints and an Anthropic-style Messages endpoint, plus image, speech and segmentation routes. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. - [Muse Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.md), graded C, 61.4/100, in Agent harnesses. Muse Code is Meta's coding agent for the terminal and CI, built for its Muse models. It plans, edits files and runs commands under approvals and an OS sandbox, interactively, headless through `muse exec` or from an SDK. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. - [Muse Glimmer 30B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-glimmer-30b.md), graded BB, 70/100, in Open-weight models. Muse Glimmer 30B is Meta's open-weight dense multimodal model for local agent work, 29.6B parameters with text and image input and a 128K-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 with GGUF and ExecuTorch builds. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. - [Muse Spark Open](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-spark-open.md), graded D, 53.5/100, in Model APIs & inference. Muse Spark Open is Meta's open-weight multimodal model for coding and agentic work, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context, released on 15 October 2026 under the Muse Model Licence for self-hosting. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. - [WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/whatsapp-cloud-api.md), graded B, 67.2/100, in Messaging APIs. Meta's WhatsApp Business Platform Cloud API sends and receives WhatsApp messages for a business phone number through the Graph API, with inbound messages and status updates arriving by webhook. Access uses a Meta developer app and OAuth access tokens. Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms), researched 2026-10-28. ## Works with - [Abraham Montilla](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/abraham-montilla/), Llama Guard 4 release/model-card contributor (GitHub amontilla0) - [Andrew McCollum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-mccollum/), Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms) - [Connor Treacy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/connor-treacy/), Meta Product Manager; Meta Model API launch-guide co-author - [Dustin Moskovitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dustin-moskovitz-2/), Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms) - [Eduardo Saverin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eduardo-saverin/), Co-founder, Facebook (now Meta Platforms) - [Josh Walters](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/josh-walters/), Developer marketing; Meta Model API launch-guide co-author - [Joshua Saxe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joshua-saxe/), LlamaFirewall research coauthor; former Meta security AI leader - [Mahesh Pasupuleti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mahesh-pasupuleti/), Senior Engineering Leader, Meta Superintelligence Labs, AI Safety and Alignment; led Llama Guard development - [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-zuckerberg/), Founder, Meta - [Sahana Chennabasappa](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sahana-chennabasappa/), AI Security Engineer; LlamaFirewall paper first-listed author - [Tatiana Shavrina](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tatiana-shavrina/), AI/ML Research Lead; Muse Glimmer research team - [Alexander Davenport](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alexander-davenport/), Director of Product Marketing, monetization interfaces and advertiser tools - [Brian Acton](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-acton/), Co-founder, WhatsApp - [Jan Koum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jan-koum/), Co-founder, WhatsApp - [Lauren Krainski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lauren-krainski/), Senior Product Manager, WhatsApp Business Messaging Platform ## Questions ### Who is Chris Hughes? Chris Hughes is co-founder of Facebook (now Meta Platforms). ### What does Meta, Meta Platforms, Inc. make? Anchor Terminal lists LlamaFirewall, Meta Marketing API, Meta Model API, Muse Code, Muse Glimmer 30B, Muse Spark Open and WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API) from Meta, Meta Platforms, Inc.. ### How are Chris's tools graded? LlamaFirewall is graded D, 51.1 out of 100; Meta Marketing API is graded B, 67.7 out of 100; Meta Model API is graded D, 52.5 out of 100; Muse Code is graded C, 61.4 out of 100; Muse Glimmer 30B is graded BB, 70 out of 100; Muse Spark Open is graded D, 53.5 out of 100; WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API) is graded B, 67.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llamafirewall-an-open-source-guardrail-system-for-building-secure-ai-agents/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahana-chennabasappa-69a77576 - https://x.com/joshua_saxe - https://dev.meta.ai/ - https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md - https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama/tree/main/LlamaFirewall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdavenport/details/experience/ - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdavenport - https://www.linkedin.com/company/meta/ - https://x.com/Meta - https://developers.facebook.com/ - https://developers.facebook.com/support/ - https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/connort - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshmwalters_llama-meta-genai-activity-7358885091185426434-VPdf - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshmwalters - https://dev.meta.ai/support/ - https://dev.meta.ai/docs/muse-glimmer - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tatiana-shavrina/en - https://dev.meta.ai/help - https://dev.meta.ai/support - https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenkrainski/details/experience/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenkrainski - https://business.whatsapp.com - https://www.whatsapp.com - https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/support/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.