"Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, according to a report from Axios. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios's reporting is accurate. As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other companies race to build the most powerful AI systems, Meta had a busy summer on the hiring front."
"This line of thinking tracks with Meta's recent "year of efficiency" - a more sanitized way to describe the company's mass layoffs. At the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that "leaner is better." Now, it seems that Meta isn't lowering its overall headcount by much, but rather, reorganizing its efforts. The company claims that most of these people impacted today should be able to find another job within Meta."
Meta will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab and reorganize teams so fewer conversations are required and individuals take on greater responsibility and impact. The company recruited more than 50 researchers from competitors with multi-million-dollar compensation packages during a hiring surge. Meta frames the reduction as part of a broader "year of efficiency" intended to make operations leaner without substantially reducing overall headcount. Most affected employees are expected to be eligible for other roles within the company. The reorganization aims to accelerate decision-making and increase each person's load-bearing scope.
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