Alexander Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, wrote in a memo to employees on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab. report From Axios.
Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is accurate.
As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other companies race to build the most powerful AI systems, Meta has had a busy summer on the hiring front. company poached more than this 50 researchers out of that competitors by offering multimillion dollar salary packageAlthough OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed That’s “none of these.” [OpenAI’s] The best people” accepted the proposal.
“By reducing the size of our team, decision-making will require less negotiation, and each individual will bear more weight and have greater scope and influence,” Wang wrote in a memo to employees.
This line of thinking matches Meta’s recent “Year of Efficiency” – a much cleaner way to describe the company. mass layoffsAt the time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that “thin is better.”
Now, it looks like Meta isn’t reducing its overall headcount by much, but rather reorganizing its efforts. The company claims that most of these people affected today should be able to find another job within Meta.
