By Katie Paul<\/p>\n
June 12 (Reuters) – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media giant has made mistakes in its AI transformation of \u200cits workforce, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg is pumping hundreds \u200cof billions of dollars into AI as he seeks to reshape his company’s inner workings around the technology, reflecting \u200ba broader pattern among major U.S. companies this year, particularly in the tech sector.<\/p>\n
In the memo, Zuckerberg describes the rapid advances in AI and the challenges brought on by the boom in the technology.<\/p>\n
“Given the complexity of these changes, we’ve made mistakes and will almost certainly \u200cmake more,” Zuckerberg said, adding that \u2060he is also “focused on providing as much stability as possible” in terms of organization changes going forward.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to overpromise because the \u2060world is changing in ways that are out of our control,” he said, reiterating that Meta does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year.<\/p>\n
He said Meta will try to find new roles \u200bfor \u200bemployees reassigned to train AI models, after the \u200bFacebook owner carried out a massive \u200crestructuring in May, laying off 10% of its workforce globally and transferring 7,000 employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows.<\/p>\n
“By creating important new roles for people, this also allowed us to shrink the size of teams knowing that if we make mistakes in some places, then we could transfer some people back,” Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n
Meta declined to comment on the \u200cmemo when contacted by Reuters.<\/p>\n
The company plans to increase \u200binvestment in team-building initiatives, Zuckerberg said, including higher \u200bbudgets for offsites and corporate events, and \u200bis organizing a large-scale hackathon in July to foster cross-team collaboration \u200cand development on its latest models.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg said \u200bMeta has taken note \u200bof concerns over the widening of manager oversight responsibilities and plans to scale back the practice.<\/p>\n
Meta’s new Applied AI Engineering unit reportedly had a flat structure with \u200bup to 50:1 ratio of \u200cindividual contributors to managers.<\/p>\n
In April, Meta raised its annual capital spending forecast to \u200bbetween $125 billion and $145 billion.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Katie Paul in New York and Juby \u200bBabu in Mexico City; Editing by Arun Koyyur)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Katie Paul June 12 (Reuters) – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,101292,12424,74],"class_list":["post-702126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-internal-memo","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}