At an in-house plenipotentiary meeting, Meta CEO Zuckerberg stated that the company had not advanced AI agents as fast as management had previously expected. According to Reuters, he also mentioned that the organizational changes that Meta had made this year around AI were not yet fully visible.
Organizational adjustment not yet effective
Earlier this year, Meta reduced its workforce by about 800, or about 10 per cent of the company ' s total workforce. At the same time, the company redistributed about 7000 people to various AI teams, including the department called Agent Transport. Zuckerberg stated that the round was not as clean as he hoped.
AI, input continues.
At the meeting, he said that the company was pushing for lay-offs and restructuring because of high-level concerns that Meta could not adapt sufficiently quickly to changes in the technology industry. At the same time, Zuckerberg said that the benefits of the new AI architecture had not materialized, but he expected that improvements would begin to be seen in the next three to six months.
Capital spending is still large.
Reuters quoted news that Meta ' s expenditure on AI infrastructure this year is expected to reach up to $145.0 billion. The report makes no mention of whether the company will further adjust its staffing, but the statement indicates that Meta is still investing more in AI, while acknowledging that the transition process has not been smooth.