Overview
- An internal memo confirmed roughly 600 job cuts across Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, affecting FAIR, product AI teams and AI infrastructure.
- The newly formed TBD Lab, which leads next‑generation large model work, is not impacted and continues to hire.
- Meta cited a need to reduce bureaucracy, with leadership saying smaller teams will be more load‑bearing and move decisions faster.
- Impacted staff were told to seek internal roles; some entered a non‑working notice period through Nov. 21 with severance of about 16 weeks plus two weeks per year of service, adjusted for notice.
- The move follows major AI spending, including a reported $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI and a $27 billion Blue Owl financing deal to fund data‑center expansion.