Meta cuts 600 AI jobs amid ongoing reorganization

Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexander Wang, wrote in a memo to employees Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab. Report From Axios

Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is accurate.

Meta has had a busy summer on the hiring front, with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other companies racing to build the most powerful AI systems. Company victim More than that 50 researchers From this competitors by offer Multi-million dollar salary packageAlthough OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed That is “none [OpenAI’s] Best man” took the offer.

“By reducing the size of our team, decision-making will require less conversation, and each person will carry more load and have more opportunity and influence,” Wang wrote in the memo to employees.

This line of thinking tracks with Meta’s recent “years of efficiency” — a more sanitized way of describing the company. Mass layoffs. At the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that “leaning in is good.”

Now, it looks like Meta isn’t reducing its overall headcount by much, but rather restructuring its efforts. The company claims that most of these people affected today should be able to find other jobs within Meta.