Zuckerberg Not Satisfied with Current AI Gains

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company’s AI agent strategy is advancing more slowly than anticipated. Meta Platforms CEO reportedly informed his employees that the AI-driven restructuring from earlier this year has yet to deliver the expected gains.

Zuckerberg said that the trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that the company expected. He further noted that the company’s bets on its new organisational structure haven’t come to fruition yet, adding that it was not as clean as it could have been, and that executives had misjudged the timing of the changes.

In May, the tech giant slashed 8,000 jobs, representing around 10% of its global workforce, and reassigned thousands of employees to AI-focused teams in a sweeping overhaul. He explained that planning discussions at the beginning of the year were apparently driven by concerns that Meta wouldn’t move fast enough to adapt, adding that executives were super optimistic about AI coding tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Code at the time.

Despite the slow progress, Zuckerberg said he expects Meta to deliver meaningful benefits from its AI investments within the next six months. At the meeting, Zuckerberg also addressed the company’s controversial internal monitoring program, which was introduced to track US employees’ mouse movements, clicks and navigation across apps and websites to train AI agents for coding and other white-collar tasks. However, Meta paused the program last month to review the exposure of sensitive information after 1,600 workers petitioned against it.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said a review of the mouse-tracking software found no employee data had been included in AI training, adding that it would return on an opt-in basis. “For people who are comfortable, that’s great; they can contribute to this kind of great human survey,” he said. “To people who are not, it is not an issue.” When Meta rolled out the software to US employees in April, they were not given the option to opt out, raising privacy concerns.