“Our new structure aims to give each org more ownership while minimizing (but making explicit) team dependencies,” Cox said.

No senior officials were let go as part of the announcement.

AI has proven vital to Meta’s goals, including its recent campaign to improve teenagers’ social media experience. Already, Instagram uses AI to confirm users’ age. Recently, it has also begun using AI technology to detect whether teenagers are posing as adults. AI has assisted Instagram’s effort to prop up its Teen Account program, which boasts 54 million teenage users and allows parents to track their children’s social media use.

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The memo came months after the Chinese Communist Party unveiled DeepSeek, its own AI model under a company with the same name. The new company has prompted comparisons to U.S. companies, such as Meta.

Companies have benefited from specializing in AI. For example, Nvidia became the second most valuable public company last summer. It has been estimated that Nvidia holds as much as 90% of high-end semiconductor chips, and its market capitalization exceeded $3 trillion. Since then, the company has committed to moving semiconductor plants to the United States.