Meta Platforms (META) chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall on Thursday that AI agent development inside the company has not progressed at the pace leadership had projected, an admission that lands at an awkward moment for a firm spending tens of billions of dollars to prove it can compete with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic on frontier AI capability.

According to a recording of the meeting reviewed by Reuters, Zuckerberg said progress on AI agents over the prior four months had not



