Zuckerberg is developing an AI agent to help him run Meta - WSJ

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal AI agent to assist him as head of the company, an unnamed source told The Wall Street Journal.

He said the AI agent under development is already allowing Zuckerberg to get information faster - for example, finding answers to some questions without having to contact multiple employees.

The company's internal platform is filled with posts by employees who share new ways of using AI and tools developed with its help, WSJ's interlocutors added. The use of AI tools has spread rapidly within Meta, including because it is now taken into account in employee performance evaluations, the publication points out.

In particular, Meta uses personal AI agents such as My Claw, which have access to employee chats and work files and can interact with colleagues - or agents of colleagues - on their behalf, the newspaper's source said. Another tool, Second Brain, which combines chatbot and AI agent functions, is also gaining popularity internally, WSJ's sources noted. It was created by one of Meta's employees based on Claude and allows indexing project documents and searching for information on them.

Meta sees the adoption of artificial intelligence as a key driver of future growth and continues to experiment with its integration into various business lines, the newspaper said.

Meta shares are adding about 2% in trading on March 23, down 8.5% since the beginning of the year.

In early March, Meta acquired Moltbook, a social interaction platform for AI agents. At the same time, the company launched a new AI application development division, whose task is to accelerate the creation of its own large language models.

That said, some Meta employees say the company's rapid changes and focus on AI have heightened their concerns about possible layoffs, the WSJ points out. Meta first conducted mass layoffs in 2022 after nearly doubling its workforce to a peak of 87,314 employees during the pandemic. At that time, the company faced a downturn in the digital advertising market and falling stock price, cutting about 11,000 jobs, the WSJ recalls. In 2023, Mark Zuckerberg declared a "year of efficiency" and announced plans to cut another 10,000 employees over the following months and slow hiring. By the end of the year, headcount had dropped to about 67,000.

In the following years, the company's staff began to grow again and, according to the latest figures, reached 78,865 employees, the newspaper said.

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