Meta is allegedly running up billions in AI spending and now wants tighter oversight of how AI gets used, by whom, and to what end.
In an internal memo sent to about 6,000 employees, Meta flagged an "exponential increase" in AI usage and warned the company is on track for billions in costs from internal use alone by 2026, The Information reports. Individual employees and teams had no visibility into, or control over, their own consumption.
Starting in 2027, Meta plans to manage AI tokens more tightly with budgets, allocations, and dedicated tools. A team of developers and engineers built a central dashboard called "AI Gateway" that tracks usage and spending in one place.
Automatic alerts for unusual cost spikes are coming next. Meta also wants to steer employees away from third-party tools like Anthropic's Claude and toward its own coding assistant, MetaCode. Other models will still be available, though; Meta's own models aren't yet competitive at the frontier.
Token usage doesn't equal productivity
