Meta is restructuring its AI strategy with a new applied artificial intelligence engineering organization designed to accelerate model development. The unit will partner with Meta's Superintelligence Lab and be led by Maher Saba, a vice president in Reality Labs. The organization includes teams focused on building interfaces and tooling, plus teams executing tasks and generating data for model evaluation. According to internal communications, the company believes reinforcement learning and post-training improvements present significant opportunities to advance faster. This move reflects Meta's broader aggressive investment strategy, with the company committing billions to AI compute and infrastructure as part of a technology sector spending surge expected to exceed five hundred billion dollars in capital expenditures during 2026.