Meta divides its AI team into two to speed up execution, no senior official is leaving due to the changes
- Meta divides its AI team into two; AI products team and AGI Foundations unit so as to speed up the rollout of new products and features, Axios reported citing an internal memo.
- AI products team headed by Connor Hayes will be responsible for Meta AI assistant, Meta’s AI studio and features within Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
- AGI Foundations unit, co-headed by Ahmad Al-Dahle and Amir Frenkel will be responsible for the company’s Llama models and efforts to improve reasoning, multimedia and voice capabilities.
- FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) will remain independent, though the team working on Multimedia has been moved to AGI.
- Ahmad Al-Dahle has been the head of the original Gen AI team while Connor Hayes has been the head of product in Gen AI team.
- Amir Frenkel was VP of engineering and product at Reality Labs.
- The restructuring follows reports that Meta is delaying the launch of Llama 4 Behemoth due to concerns over its capabilities, April release of Llama 4 Scout and Maverick which failed to impress developers and recent departure of FAIR head Joelle Pineau.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/27/meta-ai-restructure-2025-agi-llama