Meta's Alexandr Wang on why the AI team just laid off 600 workers

[doogyhatts]

Meta still have so much bloat from legacy recruitment.
https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandr-wang-meta-superintelligence-labs-layoffs-memo-2025-10

 

[doogyhatts]

 

[stanlawj]

Simple: Those AI staff that got laid off are research-oriented staff who failed to translate their work into real product features that made the difference for Facebook.
Time is up for playing with research/open-source.
By the way, this is not written in the article.

 

[LWZ]

Simple: Those AI staff that got laid off are research-oriented staff who failed to translate their work into real product features that made the difference for Facebook.
Time is up for playing with research/open-source.
By the way, this is not written in the article.

basically all the people who talk a lot and deliver nothing

 

[titusilvering]

Meta still have so much bloat from legacy recruitment.
https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandr-wang-meta-superintelligence-labs-layoffs-memo-2025-10

Get rid of woke dei. So must sack people

 

[stanlawj]

 

[DynamiteZerg]

basically all the people who talk a lot and deliver nothing

Sounds like... Better not say the word later tio ban