Zuckerberg is building an AI assistant to help him be CEO

Original Title: "Zuckerberg is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be the CEO"

Original Author: Long Yue, Wall Street News

As AI technology is increasingly applied, Meta is attempting to reshape the way work is done by building an "AI-native" company, starting with its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was reported to be developing a dedicated "CEO agent" to help him more efficiently fulfill his duties.

According to sources familiar with the matter speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg's AI agent under development is still in its early stages. Its primary function is to help Zuckerberg access information more quickly. In the past, he might have needed to go through layers of reporting to get answers, but now, this AI agent can directly fetch and provide the required information for him.

This project reflects a culture within Meta: accelerating the pace of work, eliminating redundant layers in the organizational structure, and changing how employees work day-to-day. With about 78,000 employees, facing much smaller but highly competitive AI-native startups, Meta sees full AI adoption as key to staying competitive.

In Meta's January earnings call this year, Zuckerberg teased AI efficiency: one person doing the job of many. He said, "We're investing in AI-native tools so individuals at Meta can do more. We're elevating the role of individual contributors and flattening teams." He's starting to see "projects that used to require large teams can now be done by one very talented person".

Internal AI Proliferation: From My Claw to Second Brain

Within Meta, the use of AI tools has rapidly spread. This is partly because the use of AI tools has now become a factor in employee performance evaluations.

According to sources, Meta's internal message boards are filled with employees sharing new AI use cases and new tools they've built using AI.

Employees have started using personal agent tools like My Claw. These tools can access their chat histories and work documents and even represent them in interactions with colleagues—or colleagues' personal agents.

Another AI tool named Second Brain has also garnered significant internal attention. Sources revealed that this tool, situated between a chatbot and an agent, was built on top of Claude by a Meta employee and is capable of indexing projects and querying documents. In an internal post announcing the tool, the employee described it as aiming to be an "AI chief of staff".

Furthermore, even a dedicated group for employees' personal agents to interact with each other has emerged on the internal message board.

In addition, Meta has recently acquired the AI agent social media site Moltbook and hired its founder. Moreover, Meta has acquired the Singaporean startup Manus, which creates personal agents that can perform tasks for users, with Meta currently using this tool internally.

Organizational Reshaping: Super Flat Structure and the Shadow of Layoffs

To accelerate the development of large-scale language models, Meta has recently established a new Applied AI Engineering organization. Reportedly, these teams will operate under a super flat structure, with up to 50 independent contributors reporting to one manager.

The Meta executive Maher Saba, in an internal post announcing the new team, stated, "We designed this organization to be AI-native from day one." These teams will report to the company's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth.

However, this rapid change and focus on AI usage have also sparked anxiety among some employees about potential layoffs. WallStreetCN recently reported that Meta is planning significant layoffs, with estimates ranging up to 20% or even higher. Based on Meta's approximately 79,000 employees as of the end of last December, this downsizing could exceed 15,000 employees.

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