Meta Platforms has appointed Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth to lead an internal strategy to transform the social media giant into an AI-native company. Bosworth is now officially in charge of the Meta AI For Work initiative, stepping into a leadership role previously supervised by Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen. The reorganization aims to expand artificial intelligence adoption across the company’s workforce of roughly 78,000 employees.
By shifting its primary strategic focus away from the metaverse and toward internal artificial intelligence tools, Meta hopes to operate more efficiently. The changes are designed to help the company enhance its agility and compete directly with leaner, AI-focused startups that operate with smaller staffs. In a recent internal memo, Bosworth expressed strong optimism about the transition and noted that the company has already built significant momentum.
“As I’ve been digging in I’ve found we have a lot to be proud of,” Bosworth wrote in a note to employees. “The early pilots, the willingness to pressure-test new ideas, and the speed at which we’ve enabled teams to embrace AI tools has created real momentum and sets us up for this next phase.”
Accelerating Daily Tasks with Digital Colleagues
Meta’s ultimate long-term goal is to provide every single employee with their own artificial intelligence “colleague” to assist with daily workflows. Company leadership wants all staff members to use these advanced systems to speed up their day-to-day work. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is actively developing a personalized agentic AI assistant to help manage his own daily responsibilities. Meanwhile, rank-and-file employees are building and utilizing internal tools like “MyClaw,” an application capable of accessing company data and interacting directly with colleagues.
Zuckerberg recently emphasized the importance of this technological shift, stating that 2026 will be the year artificial intelligence begins to dramatically change how work gets done. Bosworth echoed this enthusiasm in his memo to the staff regarding the technology’s potential.
“Like many of you I’ve been captivated by the power AI has to transform our company and eager to unlock its power for each individual and team,” Bosworth wrote. To ensure successful companywide adoption, he is stressing the need to unify Meta’s internal software systems to guarantee that teams can build and deploy applications within a consistent framework.
Flattening the Organizational Structure
Beyond simply deploying new software, Meta is using this technology push to reshape job descriptions and streamline internal operations. The company plans to flatten its organizational hierarchy to remove unnecessary corporate barriers. Furthermore, the company will likely tie the use of these new internal AI tools directly to employee performance reviews.
As part of this transition, Bosworth is also overseeing the creation of a new division dedicated to supporting the teams that develop large language models. This specific organization is being designed to operate with leaner team structures and aims to be completely AI-native from its very first day.
Balancing Massive Investments with Job Cuts
While Meta pours hundreds of billions of dollars into specialized infrastructure and aggressively recruits top industry talent, these costly investments are directly impacting the existing workforce. On Wednesday, the company began laying off hundreds of employees across several global divisions. The job cuts primarily affected workers in Reality Labs, recruitment, sales, Facebook, and global operations.
Although previous reports claimed Meta was considering cutting up to 20% of its total headcount—which would amount to approximately 16,000 workers—the reductions executed on Wednesday represented a much smaller percentage of the nearly 79,000 people employed at the end of 2025.
A company spokesperson addressed the workforce reductions in a statement, noting that teams regularly restructure to achieve their goals. “Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted,” the spokesperson said. These cost-cutting measures arrive alongside news that some of Meta’s top executives are scheduled to receive massive pay increases tied to achieving aggressive stock price targets over a five-year period.
Wall Street Analysts Remain Bullish
Despite the internal disruptions, Wall Street analysts maintain a positive long-term outlook on Meta’s strategic direction. Rosenblatt analyst Barton Crockett maintained a “Buy” rating on the stock with an optimistic $1,117 price forecast. Crockett views the company’s recent leadership changes, job cuts, nuclear energy initiatives, and “Meta Compute” strategy as deliberate steps to support ambitious data center expansions.
The broader analyst consensus currently gives Meta Platforms a “Buy” rating with an average price target of $851.03. Recent upward revisions include Tigress Financial raising its target to $945.00 and Wells Fargo bumping its target to $856.00.
In premarket trading on Wednesday, shares were up over 1% at $599.63. Technical analysis shows the stock holds a key resistance level at $673.00 and a key support level at $581.50. While the stock price has fallen slightly over the past 12 months, investors appear confident that Meta’s renewed focus on workplace efficiency will eventually deliver strong market returns.
