Meta AI overhaul moves ahead

Meta Platforms is reshaping its AI program again, forming a new unit and realigning leadership as it ramps up its artificial intelligence push.

Meta Plans Fourth AI Overhaul in Six Months

The Information reports that Meta Platforms is creating a new unit named Meta Superintelligence Labs, split into four groups to tackle different facets of AI work. One group, TBD Lab, is said to focus on the next version of Meta’s large language model, Llama, with new leaders from Google, Apple and OpenAI. A second group will productize AI tools such as a Meta AI assistant, a third will handle the infrastructure required to run advanced models, and a fourth will continue the fundamental AI research work. Meta has not publicly verified the details of the report.

The plan follows a year of rapid leadership shifts and reorganizations at Meta, including earlier moves to separate research and product work and the recent hires of former Scale AI chief Alexander Wang and Nat Friedman to co-lead the labs. Aparna Ramani is reported to lead the new infrastructure unit, while Rob Fergus and other researchers will keep guiding core teams. The initiative underscores Meta’s commitment to AGI as an overarching purpose, backed by heavy spending on hardware, software and talent. Industry observers will watch how these four groups coordinate, deliver usable products, and justify the rising costs amid a tightening macro environment.

Meta is betting that a more formal lab architecture can turn a diffuse AI effort into practical products faster. The risk is that big structural shifts can create short-term disruption and slow product delivery if teams clash or priorities shift. Still, the move signals a deliberate strategy to separate experimentation from productization, and to scale both the research pipeline and the operational backbone at once. As competition in AI intensifies, clear ownership of outputs and predictable milestones will matter as much as talent and infrastructure growth.

Highlights

The path from ambition to usable AI products will come into view in the months ahead.