Surely, this time, they’ll finally get it right.
Meta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to a report from Axios, about 600 people lost their jobs in Meta’s “superintelligence” lab in an effort to create a less “bureaucratic” structure.
The cuts will reportedly primarily hit Meta’s FAIR AI research lab, which was the company’s long-standing AI research unit, as well as the company’s product-related AI teams and its AI infrastructure units. “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said in a memo obtained by Axios. TBD Lab, which is tasked with “developing the next generation” of the company’s large language models, was reportedly spared from the layoffs.
