Meta Lays off 600 Employees in AI Division amid Leadership and Strategy Shift

Meta has laid off 600 employees in its AI unit as it restructures operations and consolidates leadership under Wang Jian to advance its AI strategy.

Meta is cutting roughly 600 roles from its artificial intelligence division to tighten control and accelerate its AI ambitions.

The layoffs, confirmed by a Meta spokesperson to CNBC, mark one of the company’s largest internal shakeups since it poured $14.3 billion into AI earlier this year. Meta says the restructuring is designed to strip away bureaucracy, flatten the org chart, and give its AI teams the agility to move faster in a race where every iteration counts.

The layoffs were announced in a memo from Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who joined the company in June following Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. Employees in Meta’s AI infrastructure teams, its Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research unit ...