{"id":56865,"date":"2025-10-23T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=56865"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:41:20","slug":"meta-employees-take-to-x-for-finding-roles-after-600-laid-off-from-ai-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/meta-employees-take-to-x-for-finding-roles-after-600-laid-off-from-ai-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Employees Take To X For Finding Roles After 600 Laid Off From AI Division"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meta had been offering <\/a>$100 million bonuses to get top AI researchers to join its ranks, but it now seems to just just as rapidly culling the non-star researchers on its teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meta has laid off 600 employees from its Artificial Intelligence unit. The company announced the cuts in a memo from its chief AI officer Alexandr Wang. Workers across Meta\u2019s AI infrastructure units, Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research unit (FAIR) and other product-related positions will be impacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“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,” Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang wrote in a memo to employees. The layoffs didn’t impact the newly-built TBD labs, which now houses some of Meta’s recent star acquisitions from rival labs. “I’m really excited about the models we’re training, our compute plans and the products we’re building, and I’m confident in our path to build towards superintelligence,” Wang said in the memo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meta notified at least some employees on Wednesday that November 21 was their termination date and until then they were in a \u201cnon-working notice period.\u201d \u201cDuring this time, your internal access will be removed and you do not need to do any additional work for Meta,\u201d said <\/a>the message. \u201cYou may use this time to search for another role at Meta.\u201d The company also said it\u2019s paying 16 weeks of severance plus two weeks for every completed year of service, \u201cminus your notice period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This prompted many Meta employees to take to X to look to find new roles. “Several of my team members + myself are impacted by this layoff today. Welcome to connect :)” wrote Yuandong Tian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Several of my team members + myself are impacted by this layoff today. Welcome to connect \ud83d\ude42<\/p>— Yuandong Tian (@tydsh) October 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>