Meta is restructuring its AI teams to speed up the rollout of new products and features, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Meta faces stiff competition in the AI race, including from OpenAI and Google as well as Chinese rivals such as TikTok parent ByteDance. In an internal memo sent Tuesday and seen by Axios, chief product officer Chris Cox laid out the new structure, which will see efforts divided into two teams: an AI products team, headed by Connor Hayes, and an AGI Foundations unit, co-led by Ahmad Al-Dahle and Amir Frenkel. The AI products team will be responsible for the Meta AI assistant, Meta’s AI Studio and AI features within Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The AGI Foundations unit will cover a range of technologies, including the company’s Llama models, as well as efforts to improve capabilities in reasoning, multimedia and voice. The company’s AI research unit, known as FAIR (Fundamental AI Research), remains separate from the new organizational structure, though one specific team working on multimedia is moving to the new AGI Foundations team. No executives are leaving as part of the changes, nor are any jobs being cut, though the company has moved in some leaders from other parts of the company.

Full exclusive : Mark Zuckerberg is restructuring his core AI team in Meta to take on competition from Google and OpenAI.