Meta will lay off roughly 600 employees within its artificial intelligence unit as the company looks to reduce layers and operate more nimbly, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC on Wednesday.

The company announced the cuts in a memo from its chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, who was hired in June as part of Meta’s $US14.3 billion ($20 billion) investment in Scale AI. Workers across Meta’s AI infrastructure units, Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research unit and other product-related positions will be impacted.

Axios was first to report the layoffs.

Meta notified at least some employees on Wednesday that November 21 is their termination date and, until then, they’re in a “non-working notice period”.

“During this time, your internal access will be removed and you do not need to do any

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