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Facebook parent company Meta has laid off around 600 employees from its artificial intelligence division, in a bid to streamline operations following an extensive hiring surge, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on Wednesday.
The job cuts reportedly do not affect Meta’s TBD Lab, an elite AI research unit established by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which rapidly expanded by recruiting top talent from rivals like OpenAI and Apple.
Instead, the layoffs target teams working on AI products and infrastructure, with Meta seeking to improve efficiency without slowing its most ambitious AI projects.
According to internal memos cited by the media, the restructuring is intended to reduce “organizational bloat” and speed up decision-making, with Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang noting that “fewer conversations will be required to make a decision.”
Meta has not yet commented publicly on the layoffs.
