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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Meta Platforms is cutting roughly 600
artificial intelligence jobs even as it continues to hire more
workers for its superintelligence lab, the company confirmed on
Wednesday.
Axios first reported the cuts, which will affect Meta’s
Fundamental AI Research, or FAIR unit, as well as
product-related AI and AI infrastructure units.
Its newer TBD Lab unit won’t be affected. Citing a memo sent to
workers by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, Axios said the
company is encouraging employees affected to apply for other
jobs at Meta, with most expected to find other roles. 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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