SAN FRANCISCO — Meta on Wednesday said that it plans to cut approximately 600 jobs in its artificial intelligence division, according to a memo sent to employees that was relayed to The New York Times, as the company seeks to keep pace with competitors in the furious contest over the technology.

The layoffs will be in Meta’s so-called Superintelligence Labs, which is the umbrella name for the company’s AI efforts. The division has a few thousand employees, though the exact number of workers was unclear.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, has been on a hiring spree to stack his company with top AI researchers, including a new chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, earlier this year. The cuts on Wednesday do not affect these newest hires, who have been empowered to develop “superintelligen

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