Instead, beginning sometime in 2022, he’ll be the company’s
first senior fellow on a part-time basis, he wrote.
“This is a difficult decision because of how much I love
Facebook and how excited I am about the future we are building together. This
change in role will allow me to dedicate more time to my family and my personal
philanthropic efforts while staying deeply connected to the company working on
key initiatives.”
He said some of those initiatives would include recruiting
and developing technical talent, along with working with AI investments for
“critical technologies” like PyTorch, which has recently been made the
company’s default AI framework.
The new CTO will be Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, who
created Facebook’s AR/VR organization, dubbed Facebook Reality Labs last year.
Bosworth’s job has seen him looking after the social media
giant’s efforts for things like augmented reality, virtual reality and consumer
hardware for Oculus, Portal and Facebook Reality Labs research.
Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, thanked
Schroepfer for his work over the years.
“I want to take a moment to thank Schrep for his
extraordinary contributions to our community and our company over the last 13
years,” he said in a separate statement. “He has played a critical role in
almost everything we’ve done — from building and scaling our teams to mentoring
many of our key leaders, and from helping us develop new technologies like AI
and VR to operating our infrastructure and business services at global scale.
Schrep and I have had a close partnership over the years,
and in addition to being a great leader, he’s also a great person and a close
friend.”
Facebook also recently updated its Portal video-calling
software, adding both a 10-inch portable device version as well as a more
advanced version for higher fidelity sound and video.
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