Meta's plan to restructure teams around AI collapsed after internal planning explored slashing the size of many teams across the company in two waves, including reductions of as much as 60%.
The effort followed months of repeated AI reorganisations and a centralising push to speed product work, a sequence that the social-media firm Meta pursued even as it recruited top AI talent and moved staff into new AI-focused units, Reuters reported employees pushed back.
That resistance, combined with disruption from multiple reshuffles and reported hiring freezes and leadership churn in AI roles, forced Meta to back away from the most aggressive version of the cuts and abandon its largest proposed workforce changes, Reuters said backed away.
The episode leaves Meta's wider "superintelligence" and AI product strategy in flux as the company reassesses team structures and execution plans following the retreat, with the near-term direction set by internal organisation decisions rather than an external milestone.
