Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI agents have not progressed as he expected
Follow UsMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's efforts around AI agents have fallen short of expectations.
The "trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn't really accelerated in the way that we expected," Zuckerberg said.
The company's bets on the new structure "haven't come to fruition yet," he added.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the company’s AI plans have not moved forward as quickly as he had expected. Speaking during an internal town hall on Thursday, Zuckerberg said the company’s recent restructuring had also not gone as smoothly as planned. According to a recording heard by Reuters, Zuckerberg said Meta’s efforts around AI agents have fallen short of expectations. Looking back at the past few months, Zuckerberg said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
SurveyEarlier this year, Meta made major changes across the company as part of its AI strategy. In May, the company cut about 10 percent of its global workforce and moved around 7,000 employees into AI-focused teams. The changes were made to support Meta’s growing investment in AI and improve efficiency with AI-powered tools.
During the town hall, Zuckerberg admitted the process was not as “clean” as it could have been. He also said company leaders had misjudged the timing of the changes.
Explaining why Meta moved so quickly, Zuckerberg said conversations he was having “with our top people” when they started planning the restructuring in January and February “were that they were worried that we weren’t going to move fast enough to adapt.”He added that company executives were “super optimistic” at the time about AI coding tools such as Claude Code from Anthropic.
Despite the slower-than-expected progress, Zuckerberg said he remains confident about Meta’s AI investments. He told employees that the company should start seeing more significant benefits over the next three to six months.
In the same town hall, Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth also spoke about the company’s employee activity tracking software. The program, which tracks mouse movements and digital activity for AI training, was paused last month. Bosworth said the review found that no employee data had been used to train AI systems. He added that if the program returns, it will be optional for employees.
“For people who are comfortable, that’s great, they can contribute to this kind of great human survey. To people who are not, it is not an issue,” Bosworth said.
