Meta announced plans to cut approximately 600 jobs within its AI division, specifically targeting its Superintelligence Labs, which houses several thousand employees.

The Superintelligence Labs encompass Meta’s broad AI research and development efforts, including work on products, infrastructure, and AI research.

The big picture: These layoffs aim to reduce organizational bloat that accumulated over three years of rapid AI expansion and to improve decision-making efficiency by having fewer, more impactful roles. • The affected employees primarily come from FAIR (Meta’s AI research group) and the product division; no cuts will occur in the superintelligence team or the TBD unit responsible for large language models and chatbot development.

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