Meta Shifts Metaverse Executive to AI Following Job Cuts

Meta Platforms Inc. moved its top metaverse executive to oversee AI products following hundreds of job cuts last week, a sign the company is still working to structure its teams even as it spends aggressively to compete in the heated artificial intelligence race.

Vishal Shah, who has led Meta’s efforts to build the metaverse for the past four years, is moving to the Meta Superintelligence Labs group to lead AI product under recent high-profile hire Nat Friedman, according to an internal memo sent to employees Monday, a person familiar with the matter said. Shah, who ran product at Instagram before working on the metaverse, will be responsible for taking the company’s AI technology, including its Meta AI chatbot, and adding it to Meta’s various apps and wearable devices.