Introducing the meta superintelligence. However, it will take some time and effort at first.
That’s what CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Thursday at a company town hall, according to two people who were present.
Although Meta is pouring significant resources into AI, advances in AI agent technology are not progressing as quickly as the company had hoped, Zuckerberg said in comments first reported by Reuters.
Meta’s latest internal reset illustrates the tension at the heart of the company’s evolving AI strategy. Zuckerberg and his team are racing to build AI models, pouring tens of billions of dollars into talent and infrastructure. But the company is also learning that quick action comes at a cost.
As Meta encourages its employees to accelerate AI development, it increasingly needs to balance speed with trust, morale, and employee buy-in expected to build AI.
Still, Meta is still on its “journey to superintelligence,” Zuckerberg told City Hall officials, adding that he expects to see some benefits within the next three to six months, according to officials who answered the phone. Zuckerberg said the path will require hard work, noting how competitive the AI landscape has become.
Mehta declined to comment.
Meta also seeks to roll back one of the most contentious parts of the AI push. Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth told City Hall that the company’s AI training program, which uses employees’ keystrokes and mouse movements to train models, will be opt-in only if it resumes, according to people who participated in the call.
Business Insider previously reported that the mandatory version sparked a backlash from employees who were uncomfortable with their activities being recorded. Meta suspended the program last month after an internal breach exposed employees’ conversations and keystrokes to co-workers.
Mr Bosworth acknowledged that the development had damaged morale and trust within the company. But he said it also produced more useful data than expected, suggesting Meta may not have needed to deploy it so widely.
This reversal reflects another recent setback. After reassigning thousands of people to its Applied AI Task Force last month, Meta gave engineers the option to leave the force. This is what some employees refer to as being “undrafted.”
The move comes weeks after Bosworth warned staff that morale was “probably one of the worst ever” in Meta’s 20-year history, and weeks after Meta laid off 10% of its staff, or about 8,000 people, in May.
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