Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to workers on Wednesday that the corporate will reduce about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, based on a report from Axios.
Meta declined to remark, however informed TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is correct.
As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and different firms race to construct essentially the most highly effective AI programs, Meta had a busy summer season on the hiring entrance. The corporate poached greater than 50 researchers from its opponents by providing multimillion-dollar pay packages, although OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that “none of [OpenAI’s] finest folks” took the gives.
“By decreasing the scale of our group, fewer conversations might be required to decide, and every particular person might be extra load-bearing and have extra scope and affect,” Wang wrote within the memo to workers.
This line of pondering tracks with Meta’s current “12 months of effectivity” — a extra sanitized technique to describe the corporate’s mass layoffs. On the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed workers that “leaner is best.”
Now, plainly Meta isn’t decreasing its total headcount by a lot, however slightly, reorganizing its efforts. The corporate claims that the majority of those folks impacted right this moment ought to have the ability to discover one other job inside Meta.
