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 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...
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