Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs in its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) division after it spent billions recruiting top researchers from other AI labs and companies. The layoffs are expected to impact only the MSL division, which is the umbrella entity focused on the social media giant’s AI efforts and reportedly comprises around 3,000 employees.

The job cuts within the MSL unit were confirmed in an internal memo by Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, on Wednesday, October 22, according to a report by Business Insider . The affected employees appear to be working out of Meta’s offices in the US and EMEA region.

“Earlier today, we made some changes to MSL to move us toward being the most agile and talent-dense team in the industry. By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversat

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