Meta Platforms is cutting about 600 jobs from its long-standing artificial intelligence operations as part of a major reorganization aimed at streamlining decision-making and boosting innovation, Axios reported Tuesday.
The layoffs affect teams within the company’s FAIR research division, AI infrastructure, and product-related AI units but exclude Meta’s new TBD Lab, which is expanding aggressively.
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Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said in an internal memo that the goal is to reduce bureaucracy and make teams “more load-bearing” with greater impact.
The restructuring follows CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s growing frustration that Meta’s legacy AI efforts failed to deliver breakthroughs.
In response, Meta launched the TBD Lab and poured $15 billion into Scale AI while bringing in top researchers like Ananya Kumar and Andrew Tulloch. Wang added that the company remains committed to its superintelligence goals despite the cuts.
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