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Meta is cutting 600 roles in their AI division in an attempt apparently to move faster.

Axios reports the downsizing will impact a significant chunk of the several thousand

strong AI team.

Chief AI officer Alexander Wang wrote in a memo to staff,

By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be load-bearing and have more scope and impact. Staff reportedly learned if they were among the cuts on Wednesday morning. Affected employees were encouraged to apply for other jobs at Meta, and Wang expects most of them to find another position internally where they could apply their AI skills. He wrote, this is a talented group of individuals and we need their skills in other parts of the company.

Now, by some accounts, this is now the fifth restructuring of meta's AI division this year.

Meta disputes that characterization, instead viewing this as a continuous effort to nail down

the right organizational structure. Notably, one of those reorgs involved rolling up

existing AI teams into the newly constituted superintelligence lab. Fromably, one of those reorgs involved rolling up existing AI teams into the

newly constituted superintelligence lab. From there, the expensive superstar hires that took place

over the summer were concentrated into a subdivision known as TBD Labs. Reporting states that the layoffs

won't impact TBD labs, instead thinning out the fair AI research lab, the AI product team, and the AI infrastructure

unit. Meta also continues to actively recruit more elite AI researchers for TBD labs, even as

they're doing these other layoffs. Bringing together multiple divisions and figuring out how to make

this all work in harmony is no easy task. Just ask Google who took over a year to do this between

their various AI organizations as

well. Still, to some, this feels like a recipe for even more discontent in MEDA's AI organization.

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