The head of Meta Platforms, who oversees the company’s efforts to develop its own artificial intelligence chips, will leave his post at the end of the month, two sources familiar with the matter said, cited by Reuters.

Alexis Black Bjorlin, Meta’s vice president of infrastructure and a veteran of chip companies Broadcom and Intel, led the team tasked with developing a custom chip to handle a range of artificial intelligence tasks, a key part of the company’s effort to overhaul its sprawling network of data centers in era of dominance of chatbots and image generators.

She is leaving her position at the end of the month, but not leaving the company immediately, one of the sources said.

Yee Jiun Song, vice president of Meta, will take over and the company will continue its efforts to develop its own artificial intelligence hardware, one of the sources said.

On Wednesday, Meta unveiled its first generative AI products for consumers, including a chatbot that can generate both text responses and photorealistic images.

Meta is rebuilding its data centers and building powerful supercomputers with Nvidia chips.

Reuters reported earlier this year that Meta is also working on its own custom chips that will help it both control costs and better forge its own path independent of commercial chip suppliers.

Some of the company’s initial efforts proved slower than using existing chips, leading the company to abandon some of its AI chips.

Meta is working on a newer chip that will cover all kinds of AI tasks. (photo: Daniel Constante, Dreamstime.com)