Overview

• Meta reorganized its AI division into two entities focused on AI products and artificial general intelligence research.
• Connor Hayes will lead the AI products team, and the AGI research team will be co-headed by Ahmad Al Dahle alongside Amir Frenkel.
• Meta designed the restructuring to give each team greater ownership and to clarify interdependencies without cutting senior officials.
• The company is already using AI to improve Instagram safety, including verifying users’ ages and spotting teenagers posing as adults.
• Global rivals—from Nvidia, which controls about 90% of high-end AI chips, to China’s DeepSeek model—are heightening the AI competition.