In a move that bucks the tech industry’s trend of aggressively hiring workers who specialize in artificial intelligence, Meta is slashing about 600 employees from its closely watched AI efforts , per reports on Wednesday.

Axios first published the news, which was then confirmed by Meta to TechCrunch and the Verge . The Menlo Park tech giant’s layoffs will hit three parts of its four-part AI unit, by cutting workers from its legacy AI research team and from product and infrastructure units focused on AI. Its small TBD Lab team, which is a new and high-profile group focused on cutting-edge AI models, will escape the job cuts, per Axios’ report.

Meta announced the cuts in a memo from Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang , Axios reported. It parroted a go-to layoff reasoning from CE

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