Zuckerberg tells staff AI agents aren't progressing as fast as he'd hoped

扎克伯格称AI智能体开发速度未如预期

At an internal town hall Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI agent development hasn't accelerated the way executives expected. Earlier this year Meta laid off ~8,000 employees and reassigned ~7,000 to AI groups. Zuckerberg admitted the cuts weren't as 'clean' as they should have been and the upside of the new AI-focused structure hasn't materialized yet. He expects improvements from AI investments in the next 3–6 months. Meta is on track to spend up to $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year.

Why it matters: Zuck's internal admission that AI agents are behind schedule, with a 3-6 month improvement window and hard numbers on layoffs/reassignments. TechCrunch exclusive, not a press release. Downside: it's a speech recap, not a product launch, and Meta's agent roadmap was already kno...