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Meta is cutting about 600 jobs within its artificial intelligence unit, a move the company says aims to boost efficiency.
The layoffs at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs division, which has nearly 3,000 employees, come as the company’s efforts to focus on AI have become overly bureaucratic, and the social media giant hopes the cuts will yield a more efficient workflow, according to an internal memo, according to Axios.
“By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be needed to make a decision, and each person will have more leverage and greater reach and impact,” Alexandr Wang, Meta’s head of AI, wrote in the memo.
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Meta is cutting around 600 jobs within its artificial intelligence unit. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
The cuts will impact the company’s FAIR AI research, product-related AI and AI infrastructure divisions, according to Axios. Employees of the newly formed TBD Lab unit, charged with developing the company’s next-generation AI models, will retain their positions.
Meta said it is encouraging affected employees to apply for other jobs within the company, and expects most will find other internal positions, Axios reported.
“This is a talented group of individuals, and we need their skills in other parts of the company,” Wang said.
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Meta said it encourages affected employees to apply for other jobs within the company. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Meta continues its AI efforts and is still actively recruiting for its TBD Lab unit, according to Business Insider.
The cuts also come as Meta informed risk division staff this week that several of their positions will be eliminated due to the company’s improved internal technology replacing their jobs, Business Insider reported.
Michel Protti, Meta’s chief compliance and privacy officer, informed employees of the risk organization on Wednesday that they have moved from manual reviews to more automated processes, according to an internal memo, according to Business Insider.
Meta continues her AI efforts and is still actively recruiting for her TBD Lab unit. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
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“As a result, in some areas we no longer need as many roles as we used to,” he wrote.
The number of positions affected by the redundancies at the risk unit was not disclosed.
