扎克伯格称AI智能体开发速度未如预期

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

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Meta CEO 扎克伯格在本周内部全体会议上表示，AI 智能体的开发速度并未像高管们此前预期的那样加速。今年早些时候Meta裁减约8000名员工（约占10%），并将另外7000人调至多个AI团队，包括Agent Transformation小组。扎克伯格称裁员不够“干净”，原因是高管担心公司无法足够快地适应技术行业变化。他还指出以AI为中心的新公司结构所预期的好处尚未实现，但相信未来三到六个月将开始看到AI投资的改善。路透社报道，Meta今年预计在AI基础设施上投入高达1450亿美元。

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扎克伯格对员工承认 AI 智能体进展不如预期，裁员重组的收益也还没兑现，巨头的挫败感比任何 PR 都真实，做 Agent 的团队该重新校准时间线。

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta — **Image Credits:**ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP / Getty Images

Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example.

Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected them to.

Earlier this year, Meta laid off some 8,000 employees — approximately 10% of its corporate workforce — and reassigned another 7,000 to various AI groups, including one called Agent Transformation, Bloomberg reported.

During this week’s meeting, Zuckerberg apparently commented on these job cuts — noting that they were not as “clean” as they should have been. The cuts were made because top officials at the company “were worried that we weren’t going to move fast enough ‌to adapt” to the changing landscape of the tech industry, Zuckerberg reportedly added.

The corporate leader also apparently said that the perceived upside of the new AI-focused company structure hadn’t “come to fruition yet,” although he said that he believed the company would begin to see improvements from its AI investments during the next three to six months. Several other investigative reports have depicted Meta’s months-old AI unit as a soul-crushing gulag, according to some of the engineers assigned to it.

Meta has invested heavily in AI and is expected to spend as much as $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year, Reuters reports.

TechCrunch reached out to Meta for comment.