Meta’s CTO To Spearhead Company’s AI-Native Strategy: Report

• Bosworth, referred to as Boz, has been with Meta since 2006 as part of the company’s early engineering team. 
• He took over as CTO in 2022 and is also the Head of Reality Labs, which he is credited with establishing in 2017. 
• The report comes amid Meta’s shift away from Metaverse to next-generation AI, including increased focus on its Superintelligence Labs.

Meta Platforms Inc. (META) is reportedly tapping its chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, to lead the company’s efforts to become AI native.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which cited an internal memo, Bosworth will supervise the Facebook parent’s ‘AI For Work’ initiative. The efforts were previously led by Guy Rosen, Chief Information Security Officer at the company.

The change in leadership is a move that the company has made amid efforts to be more nimble and stay competitive among AI native startups, as per the report.

The report comes amid Meta’s shift away from Metaverse to next-generation AI, including increased focus on its Superintelligence Labs.

Who Is Bosworth?

Bosworth, referred to as Boz as per the Journal’s report, has been with Meta since 2006 as part of the company’s early engineering team. He took over as CTO in 2022, and is also the Head of Reality Labs, the company's wearables and metaverse organisation, which he is credited with establishing in 2017.

Boz also helped create the original News Feed, Messenger and Groups, at Meta, as well as overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy and more.

“As I’ve been digging in I’ve found we have a lot to be proud of. 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,” Boz reportedly said in the note to employees, as per the report.

Meta’s Superintelligence Pivot

Meta has been shifting away from its virtual reality and metaverse goals to increase AI-related efforts, specifically directing its focus toward Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Earlier this week, reports claimed that Meta hired executives from AI startup Dreamer, expected to join the Meta Superintelligence Labs group to work on AI agents and related projects at the company.

Meta has also increased its capital expenditures for 2026, in the range of $115 billion to $135 billion with a big push on improving its superintelligence efforts.

How Did Stocktwits Users React?

On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around META stock was in the ‘neutral’ territory at the time of writing, amid ‘normal’ message volumes.

META stock has declined nearly 9% this year.

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