One is dedicated to AI products and the other is in charge of artificial general intelligence to improve the reasoning, voice, and multimedia capabilities of Meta’s model.
Meta announced in a memo to its employees this week that it will split its artificial intelligence team into two teams with new specifications.
Chief Product Officer Chris Cox sent the memo, which was obtained by Axios. In it, Cox explained how the department will split into two entities — one dedicated to AI products and another in charge of artificial general intelligence to improve the reasoning, voice, and multimedia capabilities of Meta’s model.
Cox announced that the products team will be led by Connor Hayes, Vice President of Product for Generative AI, and the AGI team will have two heads: Head of GenAI Ahmad Al Dahle and Engineering and Product Vice President Amir Frenkel.
“Our new structure aims to give each org more ownership while minimising (but making explicit) team dependencies,” Cox said.
No senior officials were let go as part of the announcement.
AI has proven vital to Meta’s goals, including its recent campaign to improve teenagers’ social media experience. Already, Instagram uses AI to confirm users’ age. Recently, it has also begun using AI technology to detect whether teenagers are posing as adults.
AI has assisted Instagram’s effort to prop up its Teen Account program, which boasts 54 million teenage users and allows parents to track their children’s social media use.
The memo came months after the unveiling of DeepSeek. The new company has prompted comparisons to US companies, such as Meta.
