Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected
Zuckerberg said Meta’s AI agent progress has lagged expectations as the company spends heavily, cuts jobs and shifts employees into new AI teams.
- At an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that AI agent development had not "accelerated in the way" executives expected, signaling delays in Meta's push to replace human workers with artificial intelligence.
- Google informed Meta earlier this year it was cutting off access to Gemini due to Meta's "exceptionally high demand for Google's models," forcing the company to restrict employee AI token usage and slowing internal projects.
- Earlier this year, Meta laid off approximately 10 percent of its corporate workforce—8,000 employees—and reassigned 7,000 to groups like Agent Transformation because officials "were worried that we weren't going to move fast enough to adapt."
- Meanwhile, Meta's AI efforts face rock-bottom morale and infighting while the company attempts to launch Muse Spark, its multimodal model described as the "first step on our scaling ladder and the first product of a ground-up overhaul."
- Zuckerberg expects improvements from AI investments during the next three to six months, though he noted that recent job cuts were not as "clean" as they should have been.
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Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent progress is slower than expected
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 […] This story continues at The Next Web
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