Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced plans to lay off about 600 of its employees. artificial intelligence (AI) unit.
Layoffs, as previously reported AxiosWill remove approximately 600 roles from within Meta Superintending Laboratories Division.
Alexander Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, rationalized the layoffs in an internal memo, saying: “By reducing the size of our team, decisions will require less interaction, and each person will bear more weight and have greater scope and influence.”
According to Axios, Wang also confirmed that the company is helping affected employees find other jobs within Meta.
“This is a talented group of individuals and we need their skills in other parts of the company,” he wrote.
The layoffs come as Meta is trying to increase its AI output and is still actively recruiting for its TBD Labs unit, “a specialized division tasked with developing the company’s next generation AI models.” business insider Informed.
