Meta Restructures AI Workforce: Cuts Hundreds of Jobs While Expanding Talent Pool

Recent reports from Axios reveal that Meta is making significant cuts that will impact its Fundamental AI Research unit, also known as FAIR, along with its product-related AI and AI infrastructure divisions. However, the company’s newer TBD Lab will remain unaffected by these changes.

In a memo to employees, Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang explained that the company is urging those affected by the cuts to seek other opportunities within Meta. The expectation is that most will successfully transition to new roles within the organization.

Meanwhile, Meta continues to actively recruit for its TBD Lab, which is at the forefront of developing the company’s latest large language models. These models are the driving force behind popular AI technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s own Llama.

The Menlo Park, California-based company is also still recruiting and hiring for TBD Lab, which is developing Meta’s latest large language models.

Large language models are the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini – and Meta’s Llama.

Meta has taken a different approach to AI than many of its rivals, releasing its flagship Llama system for free as an open-source product that enables people to use and modify some of its key components.

Meta says more than a billion people use its AI products each month, but it’s also widely seen as lagging behind competitors such as OpenAI and Google in encouraging consumer use of large language models, also known as LLMs.

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