Meta’s AI Shake-up: 600 Jobs Axed as Zuckerberg Doubles Down on “Superintelligence”
Leaner AI Team, Same Big AI Bet Meta’s parent company (Nasdaq: META) quietly confirmed on Oct. 22 that it is “slashing” roughly 600 jobs from its superintelligence-focused AI unit reuters.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Axios first reported the cuts via an internal memo, and Reuters/Tech news sites (TechCrunch, The Verge) later confirmed that Meta is cutting staff in three of its four AI sub-units: research (FAIR), product AI, and infrastructure. By contrast, the TBD Labs – a newly formed group of “a few dozen” top researchers working on the next generation of foundation models – will not be affected reuters.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com. In other