Meta is planning to axe around 600 roles within its legacy AI research division, according to a report from Axios. The layoffs will reportedly impact Meta’s Fundamental AI Research unit, also known as FAIR, along with its AI product and infrastructure division, while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab.
Meta spokesperson Ana Brekalo confirmed to The Verge that Axios’s reporting is accurate. Over the summer, Meta kicked off an AI…
