Meta plans to cut 20% of its workforce or more to offset costly investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and prepare for increased employee efficiency. This was reported to Reuters by three sources familiar with the situation.
The top management of the corporation informed the heads of Meta's divisions about its plans and instructed them to begin planning for cost reductions, two sources said.
Four years ago, Meta already conducted large-scale layoffs, cutting 13% of its workforce, which amounted to 11,000 people. In the spring of 2023, Mark Zuckerberg announced new layoffs — the corporation planned to eliminate 10,000 employees and close another 5,000 open positions.
After the restructuring, the company planned to lift the hiring and transfer freeze in each business group — restrictions that were introduced in 2022.
In 2025, Meta decided to invest about $15 billion in the startup Scale AI. According to The Financial Times, the investment will be one of the largest in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and aims to strengthen Meta's position in competition with companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which are actively developing their own advanced AI models.
"We are building a superintelligence lab to surpass everyone," one of the FT sources reported. The new AI department was located at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, where workspaces have been allocated for project participants near Zuckerberg's office.
Meta also wants to use AI to integrate into its social networks so that the language model can imitate the actions of a platform user after their death. The corporation has already filed a patent for a language model trained on a person's data left online — including publication histories, comments, likes, and other actions.
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