"Axios first reported the cuts, which will affect Meta's Fundamental AI Research, or FAIR unit, as well as product-related AI and AI infrastructure units. Its newer TBD Lab unit won't be affected. Citing a memo sent to workers by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, Axios said the company is encouraging employees affected to apply for other jobs at Meta, with most expected to find other roles."
"The Menlo Park, California-based company is also still recruiting and hiring for TBD Lab, which is developing Meta's latest large language models. Large language models are the technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Meta's Llama. Meta has taken a different approach to AI than many of its rivals, releasing its flagship Llama system for free as an open-source product that enables people to use and modify some of its key components."
Meta Platforms is eliminating roughly 600 artificial intelligence positions across its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) unit as well as product-related AI and AI infrastructure teams. The newer TBD Lab unit is not affected and remains actively recruiting to build Meta's latest large language models. A memo cited by Axios indicates that affected employees are being encouraged to apply for other internal roles, with most expected to find new positions. Meta continues to promote its open-source Llama system and reports over a billion monthly users for its AI products while facing perceptions of lagging behind OpenAI and Google in consumer LLM adoption.
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