Meta is establishing a new applied AI engineering organization designed to accelerate the company’s push toward superintelligence, according to two employees familiar with the matter.
The new organization will be headed by Maher Saba, a vice president at Reality Labs, the division responsible for Meta’s metaverse products and AI-powered smart glasses. Saba’s new group will report directly to Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth. Teams within the organization will have manager-to-employee ratios of up to 1:50, the people said.
Meta declined to comment.
The group will work in close partnership with Meta Superintelligence Labs, the organization that Meta created last summer and is led by former Scale AI chief Alexandr Wang, to oversee the development of Meta’s frontier AI models. Saba’s team will build “the data engine that helps our models get better, faster,” according to an internal memo, sources said. The Wall Street Journal first reported about the memo.
The new organization will have two distinct teams: one focused on building interfaces and internal tooling, and another dedicated to helping feed the AI with data.
Saba wrote in the memo that “building great models isn’t just about researchers and compute,” according to the employees.
Saba added that the group aims to turn capable AI models into market-leading ones. He pointed to recent AI research gains in reinforcement learning and post-training as evidence that Meta has an opening to accelerate if it invests more aggressively in this area, the people said.
The unusually flat structure reflects a broader organizational philosophy that CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined during Meta’s most recent earnings call. Zuckerberg told investors that Meta is “elevating individual contributors and flattening teams” and said the company is already seeing “projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single, very talented person.”
Another Big Tech company, Nvidia, is also known for its flat structure, with CEO Jensen Huang having over 30 direct reports.
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