Meta cuts around 600 jobs in AI unit: Report
Meta has reduced about 600 roles across its AI organisation, affecting FAIR, product AI and infrastructure teams while continuing to hire for its newer TBD Lab.
Meta is cutting about 600 roles across its artificial intelligence organisation, a move first reported by Axios and confirmed by multiple outlets.
The reductions have affected the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group, as well as product-focused AI and AI infrastructure teams within Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. The company has said its newer TBD Lab has been spared and continues to recruit.
In an internal note cited by several reports, Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang told staff that a leaner structure has been designed to streamline decision‑making and give individuals greater scope and impact. Meta encouraged affected employees to apply for other roles and has said many could be redeployed internally.
Last week, Meta recruited Ke Yang, a recently appointed Apple engineering leader charged with building a ChatGPT‑style search experience for Siri, in a fresh escalation of Silicon Valley’s AI hiring battle. Yang was overseeing Apple’s new Answers, Knowledge and Information (AKI) team, which is central to a planned overhaul of Siri.