Meta reorganizes AI team into two new entities

Meta announced in a memo to its employees on Tuesday that it will split its artificial intelligence team into two teams with new specifications.

Chief Product Officer Chris Cox sent the memo, which was obtained by Axios. In it, Cox explained how the department will split into two entities — one dedicated to AI products and another in charge of artificial general intelligence to improve the reasoning, voice, and multimedia capabilities of Meta’s model. Cox announced that the products team will be led by Connor Hayes, vice president of product for generative AI, and the AGI team will have two heads: Head of GenAI Ahmad Al Dahle and Engineering and Product Vice President Amir Frenkel.