Meta VP Emily Dalton Smith exits about two months after being tapped to revamp internal AI tools

Meta Vice President Emily Dalton Smith said she is leaving the company, roughly two months after being appointed to lead work to upgrade Meta’s internal AI tooling. She oversaw the Agent Transformation Accelerator (ATA) initiative and the consolidation of Meta’s enterprise AI assistant, Metamate, alongside efforts to integrate technology from Manus. Her departure comes as Meta wraps up 8,000 layoffs and reassigns 7,000 employees to AI-related work, adding to concerns about execution and organizational stability.