Zuckerberg creates an AI agent to assist him as CEO of Meta

Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring Meta towards a model in which each person, inside and outside the company, has their own personal artificial intelligence agent. And he decided to start on his own. For this reason, writes the Wall Street Journalis developing a “CEO agent” designed to assist him in daily work and retrieve information more quickly which today still passes through different levels of the internal structure.

The project is part of a broader push that runs throughout Metagroup for almost 79,000 employeeswith the aim of accelerate the pace of work, reduce hierarchical levels and change the daily tasks of employees to stay competitive compared to startups born directly in the AI ​​era. Zuckerberg had already indicated this direction in the January accounts call, explaining that Meta is investing in “AI-native” tools to enable individual employees to do more and make the flatter teams. According to the WSJ, the use of these tools has already spread rapidly within the company, also because today it weighs on performance evaluations.

AI agents and internal tools

Among them tools mentioned There are personal agents come “My Claw“, which they can access chat and work files and interact with colleagues or friends colleagues’ agents. Another internal tool“Second Brain“, developed above Claudeserve invece a index and query project documents and was described internally as a sort of “artificial chief of staff“. Meta has also created a new AI applied engineering organizationcharged with accelerating the development of Group LLMcon team with a very flat structure.

Impact on employees and future challenges

But this transformationwrites the American newspaper, also fuels internal tensions: some employees consider it a stimulating phase, others fear that the race for efficiency can translate into new cuts. After the greats layoffs started between 2022 e 2023when Meta eliminated overall 21,000 seatsthe headcount has risen again to 78,865 employees. For management, however, the priority all that remains is to prevent a group the size of Meta from working with a minor efficiency compared to competitors built around artificial intelligence from the start.