Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Thursday that the company’s AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he expected, four months after a restructuring that was supposed to speed things up.
“The kind of trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” he said at an internal town hall, according to Reuters.
The admission lands awkwardly against the scale of what Meta has already spent chasing that acceleration. The company is projected to spend up to $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year, part of a restructuring that included cutting roughly 8,000 jobs in May while simultaneously moving thousands of staff onto AI-focused teams.
Zuckerberg said that when the reorganisation was being planned in January and February, executives were “super optimistic” about coding tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Code, and had expected that optimism to translate into faster agentic progress across Meta’s own products.
It hasn’t, by his own account. He told staff the bets made during that period “haven’t come to fruition yet,” and acknowledged the reorganisation itself wasn’t as clean as it could have been, with the timing of the changes partly driven by fear that Meta “weren’t going to move fast enough to adapt.”The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
