In Meta, you can’t escape the AI.
According to Meta employees in public posts on Business Insider and LinkedIn, the company has begun conducting several weeks of intensive AI training to give employees more exposure to AI tools.
Over the past few weeks, Meta staff, regardless of title or seniority, have participated in a series of hackathons, demos, and other projects to showcase what they can build with AI. Portions of the project are built using Claude Code, which Anthropic has widely adopted internally.
This is part of Meta’s latest effort to deploy AI across its workforce, which includes setting organizational goals for AI adoption and reorganizing some teams around AI-native “pods.” Similar movements are occurring across the United States as companies look to leverage AI to increase efficiency. Google has told some employees that the use of AI will be considered in performance reviews, and JPMorgan has told software engineers that it expects them to use AI to save time.
“It’s no secret that this is a priority, and we are committed to leveraging AI to assist our employees in their daily tasks,” a Meta spokesperson told Business Insider.
Internally, these sessions have names such as “AI Transformation Week.” Employees who attended some of the sessions told Business Insider that during the sessions, some employees were provided with a demo of how the agent and other tools worked on their laptops and mobile phones.
Some of these AI weeks were held in March. One Meta employee told Business Insider that some teams held their own AI week late last year, during which staffers used vibe coding to create something of value without strict output requirements.
At one of Meta’s AI Transformation Week hackathons, participants got a demo of the company’s internal AI tool, Claude Code, and more, according to a LinkedIn post from an employee. There’s a big focus on AI agents, with the goal of having employees coach autonomous systems that can handle everything from coding to creating reports.
Design is also part of our efforts. According to her website, a Meta product manager advertised that she was using Claude Code to build an interactive vibecoding guide for designing products in Meta.
pod and goal
This week, while some employees brushed up on their AI, Meta laid off hundreds of employees across Reality Labs, the division that oversees virtual reality projects, and other organizations. The company has spent billions of dollars hiring AI talent and building infrastructure. However, the long-awaited Frontier model, which has the internal code name “Avocado,” has not yet been released.
While this has given Meta the perception that it is lagging behind in the AI race, a top Wall Street analyst said earlier this month that the company’s aggressive internal AI transformation could actually provide an “insurmountable” advantage in cost and performance.
Meta is making other changes as it strives to become what CEO Mark Zuckerberg has described as “AI-native.” Business Insider previously reported that employees at a division of Reality Labs, the organization overseeing Meta’s virtual reality projects, have been rebranded with titles such as “AI builders” and organized into AI-native “pods.”
The company also has specific goals for deploying different AI tools for different teams, according to an internal document reviewed by Business Insider.
Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said Tuesday that he will take leadership of the company’s internal AI efforts, known internally as “AI for Work,” according to a copy of the post seen by Business Insider and first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
“These tools promise to give each employee even more power to get their jobs done,” Bosworth said in a post on X.