Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions in its artificial intelligence unit, in a reorganization of its workforce to better compete in the global AI race.

Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who was poached earlier this year from the start-up Scale AI, informed employees in a memo on Wednesday that the cuts were designed to reduce the size of the team, and quicken decision-making so that the AI team can have more impact. The move was first reported by Axios, and later confirmed by Meta spokesman Dave Arnold.

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