In an effort to create an “AI-first” workplace, Meta is expanding its employees' access to tools from rivals like Google and OpenAI, Business Insider has learned.
The social media giant is encouraging its employees to incorporate AI tools into nearly everything they do, according to multiple internal documents and posts reviewed by Business Insider.
Atish Banerjea, Meta's chief information officer, told employees in a June memo that one of the company's priorities was “making AI core to the way we work,” and outlined plans to use Meta's own models (using the naming convention “Llama”) with products from other companies.
In November, Meta engineers said in an internal post that all employees have access to Google's Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT-5. The post included a list of AI tools that meta-employees have access to and their use cases. Business Insider has recreated the list below.
A Meta spokesperson acknowledged the revamped suite of AI tools and pointed to previous comments shared with Business Insider regarding AI implementation, saying, “It's no secret that this is a priority, and we are committed to leveraging AI to assist our employees in their daily tasks.”
Embrace rival AI tools
The social media giant opened the floodgates to rival AI models in June.
That includes an internal coding tool called Devmate that uses Anthropic's Claude, Business Insider previously reported. In a June memo, Banerjee told employees that Google's Gemini and NotebookLM Pro are also available across the company to help employees “work smarter and have a greater impact.”
Meta has invested tens of billions of dollars in its consumer-facing AI models, and employees have access to an in-house AI assistant called Metamate built on the Llama model.
After Meta signed a deal with startup Midjourney to incorporate its AI image generator into its products and models in the summer, the company made the tool available to employees in October for “concept and production use” to speed up design work and creative prototyping, according to an internal post obtained by Business Insider ahead of publication.
Gemini isn't the only Google tool Meta uses. The company moved its internal productivity suite (including chat, Gmail, Docs, and Drive) to Google Workspace over the summer, the company said in a June memo explaining the move. as a way to “unlock AI-driven capabilities” and better integrate with a growing toolset.
On the engineering side, Meta expanded access to agent coding systems, added Google's Gemini 3 Pro, and explored new integrations with tools like OpenAI's Codex CLI and Google's Gemini CLI. “Rather than focusing on specific solutions, our strategy is focused on outcomes such as increasing productivity, accelerating development, and ensuring access to the best agent coding experience,” Reality Labs executive Maher Saba told employees in November. Note viewed by Business Insider.
Business Insider previously reported that Meta is gamifying the use of AI to encourage adoption and experimentation. Earlier this year, the company launched an internal game called “Level Up” to award badges to employees who used AI in different ways. Leaders are also tying performance to outcomes achieved through AI, rewarding those who can demonstrate “AI impact” this year and including it as part of their performance reviews in 2026.
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