Meta reorganizes its AI teams yet again, this time slashing 600 positions
As it scrambles to catch up to rivals, Meta is yet again restructuring its AI teams, and will be laying off 600 researchers, according to Axios. This is the fifth reorg in the past eight months, based on news reports.
After stumbles from the release of Meta’s flagship model, Llama 4, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a risky bet to shake up the company’s AI efforts.
Zuckerberg set out to build a new “superintelligence” team, made up of AI all-stars from around the industry lured with nine-figure pay packages and promises of near limitless computing resources.
The flood of new talent poached from competitors like OpenAI, Apple, Google, DeepMind, and others created some awkward tension within Meta, as it already had a prestigious AI team in place known as FAIR, led by neural networks pioneer Yann LeCun. The new recruits were assigned to a team named “TBD” and won’t be affected by the cuts, per the report.
Since hiring Alexandr Wang from Scale AI to run the new high-profile team, several rounds of restructuring have roiled the existing Meta AI talent, many of whom might be learning they have lost their jobs.
Zuckerberg set out to build a new “superintelligence” team, made up of AI all-stars from around the industry lured with nine-figure pay packages and promises of near limitless computing resources.
The flood of new talent poached from competitors like OpenAI, Apple, Google, DeepMind, and others created some awkward tension within Meta, as it already had a prestigious AI team in place known as FAIR, led by neural networks pioneer Yann LeCun. The new recruits were assigned to a team named “TBD” and won’t be affected by the cuts, per the report.
Since hiring Alexandr Wang from Scale AI to run the new high-profile team, several rounds of restructuring have roiled the existing Meta AI talent, many of whom might be learning they have lost their jobs.
