Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges mistakes in Meta AI transformation, says there will be no more large-scale layoffs this year

On June 14, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an internal memo that the company "has made mistakes during its AI-focused organizational shift and will almost certainly keep making them going forward," though it aims to preserve as much organizational stability as possible. Zuckerberg also emphasized that Meta does not anticipate another company-wide layoff this year. Back in May, the company completed a major restructuring, cutting roughly 10% of its global workforce and reassigning 7,000 employees to new AI workflow-related projects. He added that the company will work to secure new roles for staff focused on AI model training, allowing some employees to return to their original teams if needed. Additionally, Meta plans to expand its team-building budgets, increase spending on remote meetings and corporate events, and host a major hackathon in July to drive cross-team collaboration and develop cutting-edge AI models. Zuckerberg also pointed out that Meta has noticed issues with managers having overly wide spans of control and plans to address this practice. According to reports, Meta’s newly established Applied AI Engineering department uses a flat structure, with a ratio of individual contributors to managers as high as 50 to 1. This past April, Meta raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to between $125 billion and $145 billion to accelerate its AI strategy.