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Meta to lay off nearly 600 employees amid AI division restructuring. The decision aims to reduce bureaucracy, boost team productivity.

Published: October 22, 2025 8:01 PM IST

Meta Layoff: The United States-based multinational company, Meta, is implementing a major restructuring in its intelligence division, which could fire hundreds of its employees while simultaneously increasing recruitment for its newly established TBD Lab, Axios reported. The company’s decision showcases its effort to streamline its operations.

Why Meta Is Firing 600 Employees

As per a report by Axios, citing Meta’s internal memo, Meta’s extended initiative in AI had become majorly bureaucratic. According to Alexandr Wang, Meta’s Chief AI Officer leaner team is more productive. “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,” he said.

The layoff is expected to affect nearly 600 roles across the company’s FAIR AI research unit, AI product and infrastructure teams. Meta is also encouraging affected employees to apply for the other internal roles.

“This is a talented group of individuals, and we need their skills in other parts of the company,” Wang said.

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• Meta to lay off nearly 600 employees amid AI division restructuring.
• The decision aims to reduce bureaucracy, boost team productivity.
• Affected staff encouraged to apply for internal roles.
• Meta ramps up hiring for new TBD Lab as part of its USD 15 billion AI investment.

TBD Lab and Strategic Hiring In Focus

Amid the layoff tensions, Meta continues its hiring spree for the newly formed TBD Lab Recent which recently recruited OpenAI research scientist Ananya Kumar and Andrew Tulloch who is the co-founder of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines.

Notably, this lab is a part of Meta’s USD15 billion investment in Scale AI. It also showcases Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts for more impactful AI breakthroughs.

Wang talked about Meta’s vision for the future, “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.”

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