Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer and head of Reality Labs at Meta Platforms, at an event last year. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News
Meta Platforms META 0.23%increase; green up pointing triangle is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to help bolster the company's superintelligence efforts, according to an internal memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The new teams will be led by Maher Saba, who is currently a vice president in the Reality Labs division. The new organization will report up to Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth and is aiming for an ultra-flat structure of up to 50 employees to one manager, the memo said.
The organization will partner with Meta's Superintelligence Lab to build "the data engine that helps our models get better, faster," Saba said in the memo.
It will be made up of two teams, one responsible for building interfaces and tooling, and a second responsible for executing tasks, generating data and providing evaluations that flow back to their modeling teams, he said.
"Building great models isn't just about researchers and compute; it requires real-world data, feedback and evals," Saba wrote in the memo. "This creates the flywheel that turns a strong model into a leading one. Lately, we've seen some excellent gains from reinforcement learning and post-training and we believe we have a real opportunity to move faster and pull ahead if we double down on these efforts."
Meta restructured its AI efforts last summer, creating the new Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI chief Alexandr Wang. His organization is responsible for developing the company's latest AI models.
Since then, the company has been on a hiring spree and is working on new models, code-named Avocado and Mango, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Investors, analysts and the tech industry at large have been eagerly awaiting the new models, and Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been asked for updates on multiple recent earnings calls.
On a call in January, Zuckerberg said the company is going to start shipping its new models and products in the coming months. "I expect our first models will be good, but more importantly will show the rapid trajectory we're on," he said.
The new applied AI engineering organization is seeking managers from any location across a range of teams -- software engineering design, product management, data science and data engineering -- and has told interested employees to complete an internal form by 5 p.m. PT Friday.
Corrections & Amplifications
Meta's new Applied AI Engineering organization won't be part of its Reality Labs division. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said it would be. (Corrected on March 3)