Meta opens an enterprise AI arm with MongoDB’s chief executive in charge

Meta set up a new business unit on 28 September to sell its AI models, agents and infrastructure to companies, and hired the chief executive of MongoDB to run it. Meta Enterprise Platform is led by Chirantan “CJ” Desai as chief enterprise platform officer, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg. It names four products, with more promised: the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, the Muse API and Muse Code.

Zuckerberg calls the unit “the next major pillar of our business” and says it will draw on Meta’s models, agents and infrastructure and on its years of working with businesses. The announcement gives no prices, no availability dates and no word on partners, resellers or cloud marketplaces. Desai says the unit will package Meta’s AI stack into products and services for companies to run themselves. Before MongoDB he ran product and engineering at Cloudflare and spent nearly eight years at ServiceNow, latterly as president and chief operating officer.

MongoDB turns to its former chief

MongoDB announced Desai’s departure the same day, effective immediately, and named Dev Ittycheria interim president and chief executive. Ittycheria ran the company for 11 years before stepping down in 2025 and has stayed on the board since. The board has retained an executive search firm to find a permanent successor and said the business is strong. Investors were less sure: MongoDB shares fell by more than 17% after the news, as reported by TechCrunch.