(KRON) — Tech giant Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its artificial intelligence division. According to Axios, which first broke the story, the cuts come even as the company continues to hire for its TBD Lab, the team behind the company’s push to develop an AI “superintelligence.”
Mark Zuckerberg has made AI a top priority for the Menlo Park-based social media company, spending billions over the summer to lure top talent, often from competitors like OpenAI. According to Axios, the cuts are aimed at legacy AI employees in Meta’s FAIR AI research, product-related AI and AI infrastructure units.
No job cuts will be made in the newer TBD Lab unit.
Citing an internal memo, Axios is reporting that Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang is encouraging laid-off employees to apply for other jobs at Meta and most are expected to land other roles.
“This is a talented group of individuals, and we need their skills in other parts of the company,” Wang reportedly said.
Impacted U.S.-based employees reportedly received a memo Wednesday morning announcing their jobs had been cut. The job cuts were reportedly part of a reorganization after Zuckerberg and Meta became concerned that the company’s existing AI efforts had become overly bureaucratic.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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