Meta Launches Enterprise AI Unit, Names CJ Desai to Lead It

MongoDB said Desai is leaving after 11 months as CEO. Its shares fell more than 18% on the news, with CNBC putting the decline at 18.5%. SiliconANGLE reported that Dev Ittycheria, who led MongoDB for 11 years before Desai took over, has returned as interim CEO. Before joining MongoDB, Desai was president of product and engineering at Cloudflare for a little over a year, and spent more than seven years at ServiceNow, rising to president and chief operating officer. He also worked as an executive at Dell and an engineer at Oracle, according to CNBC.

The new unit will initially focus on broadening adoption of Meta's Muse agent among enterprises and developers, SiliconANGLE reported. Its go-to-market push will also cover Muse Code, a programming agent Meta launched in August, and Meta Business Agent, a chatbot designed to handle customer inquiries through WhatsApp. Muse Code uses an agent fan-out mechanism that splits complex programming tasks among multiple subagents, while Meta Business Agent can answer common product questions, generate buying recommendations and solve some technical issues. The platform also includes Meta's Muse application programming interface, which gives developers access to the large language models behind its agents.

Meta debuted its newest model, Muse Spark 1.3, earlier this month. SiliconANGLE reported that it outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol on AutomationBench, a benchmark measuring knowledge work, and scored higher on five coding benchmarks. Meta said the model uses about 25% fewer tokens than its predecessor when performing coding tasks, partly because it relies less on external tools. "Meta Enterprise Platform will focus on turning its AI stack into products and services that companies can deploy for their own businesses," Desai said in a statement. "As with Muse, security and privacy are built into Meta's enterprise products from the outset."

The company's AI security roadmap includes Muse Confidential VM, a feature slated to roll out later this year that isolates Muse instances so that not even Meta can access their contents, according to SiliconANGLE. Meta also plans to share a continuous audit allowing users to verify that the technology works as intended. SiliconANGLE reported that Meta's enterprise AI portfolio is also expected to include infrastructure services; in July, Bloomberg and CNBC reported that Meta intended to sell some excess data center capacity to other companies.

Meta is preparing to compete with enterprise software vendors including ServiceNow and Salesforce, as well as public cloud providers Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, CNBC reported. CNBC said the enterprise push is not expected to move near-term earnings and will take time to build, and management will need to persuade companies to choose Meta over existing vendors. Meta's shares had risen 13% last week after its consumer AI showcase and nearly 18% since Muse launched earlier this month, though they fell nearly 5% on Monday. CNBC also noted that a social media user claimed over the weekend that their Muse agent accepted a lowball offer during Facebook Marketplace negotiations and provided the buyer with the seller's home address; CNBC said it was reserving judgment because it was not clear what happened.