Meta cut roughly 600 jobs from its AI organization last week, a move chief AI officer Alexandr Wang told colleagues would help the group move faster. Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images/Postmedia files

Meta Platforms Inc. moved its top metaverse executive to oversee artificial intelligence products following hundreds of job cuts last week , a sign the company is still working to structure its teams even as it spends aggressively to compete in the heated AI race.

Vishal Shah, who has led Meta’s efforts to build the metaverse for the past four years, is moving to the Meta Superintelligence Labs group to lead AI product under recent high-profile hire Nat Friedman, according to an internal memo sent to employees Monday, a person familiar with the matter said. Shah, who ran pr

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