Meta announced the reassignment of 7,000 of its employees to new teams focused on the development of artificial intelligence. In addition, the company will lay off 10% of its workforce this week, or around 8,000 employees.
This Monday, May 18, Meta announced the reassignment of 7,000 of its employees to four new organizations dedicated to the development of AI tools and applications. Two days later, on May 20, the company will implement its layoff plan which concerns 10% of its global workforce, or 8,000 employees. From now on, Meta devotes the majority of its investments to artificial intelligence, while integrating AI into its workflows.
Meta announces the reassignment of 7,000 of its employees
The era of the multiverse is dead and buried at Meta, we are now heading towards artificial intelligence. This Monday, May 18, the American company announced through an internal memo the reallocation of 7,000 of its employees in four new organizations dedicated to the development of new AI tools and applications. According to information from the New York Times, these four new organizations integrate AI-enabled workflows and have fewer managers and director positions than other departments in the company. In other words, managers of these four new organizations are AI agents designed by Meta. Janelle Gale, director of human resources at Meta, assures: “ This restructuring will allow us to be more productive and make work more rewarding ».
A dark week for Meta employees
The announcement of the reassignment of 7,000 employees was made this Monday, May 18. Two days later, on Wednesday May 20, Meta will dismiss 10 % of its workforce, i.e. approximately 8,000 workersmainly to finance the development of artificial intelligence. Mark Zuckerberg announced investments of between $115 billion and $135 billion this year, mainly for the development of new AI technologies. Meta also announced the closure of 6,000 vacant positions and the deployment of the “ Model Capability Initiative “. This program is designed to capture employees’ mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models. More than 1,000 of them have signed a petition against the training of AI tools using their data. Suffice to say that the atmosphere is not good within Mark Zuckerberg’s company, nor among his subcontracting companies.
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The New York Times
