LOS ANGELES \u2014 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media giant has \u200bmade mistakes in its AI transformation of its workforce, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into AI \u200cas he seeks to reshape his company’s inner workings around the technology, reflecting a broader pattern among major companies this year, particularly in the \u200btech sector.<\/p>\n
In the memo, Zuckerberg describes the \u2060rapid advances in AI and the challenges brought on by the boom in the \u200ctechnology.<\/p>\n
“Given the complexity of \u200cthese changes, we’ve made mistakes and will almost certainly make more,” Zuckerberg \u2060said, adding that he is also “focused on providing as \u2060much stability as possible” in terms of organization changes going forward.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to overpromise because the world 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 for employees reassigned to \u200ctrain AI models, after the Facebook owner carried out a \u200bmassive restructuring 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 memo when contacted by Reuters.<\/p>\n
The company plans \u200bto increase investment in team building initiatives, Zuckerberg said, including higher budgets for off-site and corporate events, \u200cand is organizing \u200ca large-scale \u2060hackathon in July to foster cross-team collaboration and development on its latest models.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg said Meta has taken note of 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 \u200cwith up to a 50-1 ratio \u200bof individual contributors to managers.<\/p>\n
In April, Meta raised \u200cits annual capital spending forecast \u2060to between $125 billion \u200band $145 billion.<\/p>\n
Contributing: Juby Babu<\/p>\n
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