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Meta Reorganizes AI Teams To Accelerate Product Development As AI Race Heats Up

Published on May 28, 2025

Meta is restructuring its artificial intelligence teams to expedite product development amid intensifying competition with rivals OpenAI, Google, and ByteDance, according to an internal memo obtained by Axios.

Chief Product Officer Chris Cox announced that Meta’s AI efforts will now be divided into two teams: an AI products team led by Connor Hayes, and an AGI Foundations unit co-led by Ahmad Al-Dahle and Amir Frenkel.

The AI products team will oversee the Meta AI assistant, Meta’s AI Studio, and AI features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the AGI Foundations unit will focus on technologies including the company’s Llama models and capabilities in reasoning, multimedia, and voice.

Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) unit remains separate from this new structure, though a specific multimedia team is moving to the AGI Foundations group.

Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun recently revealed that FAIR is developing AI architectures fundamentally different from today’s Large Language Models, focusing on “objective-driven AI” and “world models” that enable systems to predict consequences of actions.

“LLMs are really great, they’re useful for a lot of stuff, but they have to be trained for everything they need to do. They cannot do something new without being trained for it,” LeCun said at a recent AI Alliance event.

Business Expansion and Competition

Meta reports nearly one billion monthly active users engaging with Meta AI across its platforms. The company plans to introduce a premium subscription for its AI assistant, joining rivals in offering paid AI services.

“I expect there will be a large opportunity to show product recommendations or ads, as well as a premium service for people who want to unlock more functionality or intelligence,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during a recent earnings call.

Meta has increased its AI investment forecast to $64-72 billion for the year, up from the previous $60-65 billion projection, as it expands its Llama ecosystem, which has surpassed one billion downloads since launch.

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