Overview
- The reductions hit FAIR research, product-focused AI and AI infrastructure teams, while the TBD Lab is untouched and continues to hire.
- Impacted staff were placed in a non-working notice period with Nov. 21 as the expected termination date and will receive 16 weeks of severance plus two weeks per year of service.
- Management is encouraging internal applications and says it expects many affected employees to find roles elsewhere at the company.
- Following the cuts, Superintelligence Labs will have just under 3,000 employees.
- The move comes as Meta continues major AI spending, including a $27 billion data-center financing deal this week and an earlier roughly $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI.