In its push to create an “AI-first” workplace, Meta is expanding employees’ access to tools from rivals such as Google and OpenAI, Business Insider has learned.
The social media giant has been encouraging employees to integrate AI tools into nearly everything they do, according to multiple internal documents and posts seen by Business Insider.
One of the company’s priorities is to “make AI core to how we work,” Meta’s chief information officer, Atish Banerjea, told employees in a June memo outlining a plan to use Meta’s own models — which use the naming convention “Llama” — alongside products from other firms.
In November, a Meta engineer said in an internal post that employees have access to Google’s Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5. The post included a list of AI tools Meta employees have access to, including their use cases. Business Insider has recreated the list below.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the revamped suite of AI tools and pointed to an earlier comment shared with Business Insider about AI adoption, stating: “It’s well-known that this is a priority, and we’re focused on using AI to help employees with their day-to-day work.”
Embracing rival AI tools
The social media giant opened the floodgates to rival AI models in June.
Among those is an internal coding tool called Devmate that uses Anthropic’s Claude, Business Insider previously reported. Google’s Gemini and NotebookLM Pro are also available across the company to help employees “work smarter and have more impact,” Banerjea told employees in the June memo.
Meta has invested tens of billions into its own consumer-facing AI models, and employees have access to an internal AI assistant called Metamate, which is built on its Llama models.
After Meta struck a deal over the summer the startup Midjourney to weave its AI-image generator into its products and models, the company made the tool available to employees in October for “concept and production uses” to speed up design work and creative prototyping, according to an internal post ahead of the rollout, seen by Business Insider.
Gemini isn’t the only Google tool Meta is embracing. The company migrated its internal productivity suite over the summer to Google Workspace — including Chat, Gmail, Docs, and Drive — describing the move in a June memo as a way to “unlock AI-driven capabilities” and better integrate with its expanding toolset.
On the engineering side, Meta has expanded access to agentic coding systems, adding Google’s Gemini 3 Pro and exploring new integrations with tools like OpenAI’s Codex CLI and Google’s Gemini CLI. “Rather than focusing on specific solutions, our strategy centers on outcomes: increasing productivity, accelerating development, and ensuring you have access to the best agentic coding experiences,” Reality Labs executive Maher Saba told employees in a November memo seen by Business Insider.
To encourage adoption and experimentation, Meta has gamified the use of AI, Business Insider previously reported. Earlier this year, it launched an internal game called “Level Up,” which rewards employees with badges for using AI in different ways. Leaders are also tying performance to results achieved through AI, rewarding those who can prove “AI-driven impact” this year, and including it as part of performance reviews in 2026.
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