Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to employees on Wednesday that the corporate will reduce about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, in accordance with a report from Axios.
Meta declined to remark, however advised TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is correct.
As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and different corporations race to construct probably the most highly effective AI programs, Meta had a busy summer time on the hiring entrance. The corporate poached greater than 50 researchers from its competitors by providing multimillion-dollar pay packages, although OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that “none of [OpenAI’s] greatest folks” took the presents.
“By lowering the scale of our staff, fewer conversations will probably be required to decide, and every individual will probably be extra load-bearing and have extra scope and impression,” Wang wrote within the memo to employees.
This line of considering tracks with Meta’s current “yr of effectivity” — a extra sanitized option to describe the corporate’s mass layoffs. On the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg advised employees that “leaner is best.”
Now, it appears that evidently Meta isn’t reducing its general headcount by a lot, however somewhat, reorganizing its efforts. The corporate claims that the majority of those folks impacted at this time ought to be capable of discover one other job inside Meta.
