Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is once again shaking up its artificial intelligence unit: as Axios reports, the company is cutting some 600 roles from its so-called Superintelligence lab.

Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang noted in a memo that the company is looking to streamline the greater AI department.

“By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” he wrote, as quoted by Axios.

It’s a notable new development, considering Zuckerberg has personally led an aggressive hiring spree earlier this year, trying to court AI talent by offering workers up to $1 billion, multi-year job contracts. (The company says it’s continuing to hire for its TBD Lab, which was created last month to work o

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