Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is laying off 600 employees. These 600 people will be removed from the company’s Artificial Intelligence Unit. A company spokesperson told CNBC that by firing these people the company wants to reduce the layers and speed up the work.
The company has given information about this layoff in a memo, which has come from the company’s Chief AI Officer Alexander Wang. to alexander wang meta Was hired in July this year, when the company invested $ 14.3 billion in Scale AI.
Who will be affected by the layoffs?
This layoff will impact Meta’s AI Infrastructure units, Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research Unit and other product related positions. However, this will not affect the employees of TBD Labs. There are many top tier AI employees of the company in this team, whom the company has hired this year.
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Talking about the current situation, Meta’s AI unit has a large number of employees. People associated with the matter say that the team has become very big due to hiring in different teams. Especially when people were appointed for Meta’s Super Intelligence Lab, Meta’s AI unit became quite big.
It is because of this that layoffs are taking place. In recent months, Meta has begun to rapidly change its approach to AI. The company is doing this to compete with its competition – OpenAI and Google. For this the company is spending billions of dollars in infrastructure and hiring.
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Stopped internal access, asked to find other work
People associated with the matter say that after the layoff of 600 people, the number of employees in Meta Superintelligence Labs will reduce to 3000. Meta has told many employees this week that November 21 will be their last day in the company and till then they will be on non-working notice period.
During this period, internal access of employees will be closed. They will not have to do any work for Meta. The company says that employees can use this time to find other work for themselves in Meta.
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