Meta offers investors a combination of safety and growth potential.Meta Platforms (META +0.78%) is a company many of us have close contact with daily. That's because it's the owner of some of the world's most commonly used apps: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. About 3.5 billion people around the globe use at least one of these daily.The tech giant doesn't consider itself just a social media company, though. In recent years, it's made major steps in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) -- ...