Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
Source: Reuters
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.
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Over the last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pushing Meta to compete more forcefully in generative AI. The company has offered huge pay packages, some worth hundreds of millions of dollars over four years, to court top AI researchers to a new superintelligence team.
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Meta's planned AI investments follow a series of setbacks with its Llama 4 models last year, including criticism that it provided misleading results on the benchmarks it used for early versions. It abandoned the release of the largest version of that model, called Behemoth, which had been due out in the summer.
The superintelligence team has been working to reassert the company's standing this year by building a new model called Avocado, but the performance of that model has also lagged expectations.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/
Delusional.
RainCaster
(13,642 posts)The CxO suites that push this AI shit are the most inward focused group of morons possible. They are all counting on AI as the Universal Solution To All Their Problems. Yet they have no idea how they are going to get from here to there. They built a culture of interviewing employees long and deep to completely understand the candidate's morals, yet there's not a damn thing about what sort of morals should be designed into these AIs that will own 90% of their bottom line in 10 years or less.
Fichefinder
(420 posts)If layoffs can result in Billions in capital. Zuck hates human beings.
jfz9580m
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One cannot ever be sure, but this is a wild goose chase..and anyway blowback will start..it is..inevitable!
No one wants their stupid metaverse and Alexandr Wang is just Elizabeth Holmes 2.0, except harder to catch..right now.
Prof Lecun is a way better bet re science. I dont even like Fei Fei Li..but even she is a better bet. Meta will keep pretending defense contracts and advertising are superintelligence and hope destroying education makes that broadly credible. Those llms are such garbage. A two photon microscope is real science. Those llms..LOL.
And their real world models are as sloppy and clunky at scale rolled out as I have seen and the Indian govt can expect a harassment, malpractice, misconduct etc allegation on steroids for what happened in my case. This trash needs to be ended and asap, not entrench and get embedded with this fraudulent narrative and low rent tech critics propping it up and that too in a military vets home when one person has already died as a result while I lost years. This wont fly.
I like how Ed Zitron really goes for the metaphoric jugular wrt these hucksters.
I will unambiguously be filing allegations of serious misconduct in human subject research here in India with more information.
The real world is not the plaything of some idle and brainless billionaire playboys who dont understand ecology, humans, good science or anything..
My oncologist is the only person I trust locally to have the intelligence and gravitas for something this serious with no meaningful IRB and constant hustling and bullying and he is: 1) not an ai scientist and 2) overworked.
Everyone with gravitas in science and medicine is too overworked and these guys Alexandr Wang etc are idiots.
Societies run by incompetent grifters, bullies, narcissists and sycophants who project. I have alerted my medical mj co which provides an honest service at a reasonable price. And should not have frauds in ai and healthcare piling on predatorily to rubber stamp things while keeping me out of the loop, tarnished and extorted daily.
I am not a loose cannon or a callous, irresponsible, careless person and so while I have to send a very clear stop signal wrt more garbage growth that only exploited me and caused injuries -they need a parallel lower and clean tech, more stable and sustainable economy ones it is this outrageously deep on my turf. But as much as these brainless guys see any regulatory pushback or complaints as war or blackmail inverting the real dynamic, it is no such thing.
Talarico gets it..it is top versus bottom. And this cannot go on and as Merrick Garlands negligence and ineptitude showed, the consequences are immense to not pushing back against all corruption, inconsistency and grift.
I dont misunderstand anything. But these wars are all for special interests.
Billionaire funded police reform is a joke and will allow those DOGE idiots etc to float conspiracy theories about unconnected things and people. This has to stop at least where I am involved.
I am relatively reasonable and moderate enough irl and have paid through the nose for this shameless extravagance without any meaningful support and I am sick of it.
When you cannot even convince me, just shut it down. Yes I did say no immediately, because I am not stupid. Clean off the rare few salvageable things. Take some damn responsibility ffs. I do..you should try that instead of bloviating ahead with new brainless narcissists piling on all the time..where is my share of this made up garbage pie from hell??? How can I get my own gold toilet or pearls to clutch???
Goddamn lunatic frauds..
I do not believe in breaking things or collateral damage.
But with each additional day of systemic negligence and ineptitude I get more (unseasonably? Huh? Where did that come from?) irked ..how can I tell them how to do their jobs? ..and there has not been one thing that was not forced or a random blind shot that worked despite the scale of stupidity, greed and fecklessness.
Without alarming, angering and exploiting me further or expecting any dilution re regulation and quality after all this, they should recognize that each additional day of this will work against all of them in the future.
What I have seen for 14.5 years is disgusting. It is like some fucking pervert pushing a bloody nudist colony and insisting it is inevitable or worse universal.
What response is human, democratic and feminist except fuck no. I dont care what fucking Chinese spyware infested computer you male creeps looked at porn on (quite a few shots in the dark there, but thats my guess about these shallow meninists..looking at these Epstein Files, it must be that..logical inference! Not paranoia or anti-vaxxer tendencies..again shots in the dark..lol) or engaged in other malfeasance with, but this is not happening.
You want ubiquitous computing, do it decently and with dignity instead of consistently lowering the standards everywhere, screwing over the worst off people, shoving anyone who talks back into loony bins and constantly finding judges and juries of kangaroo courts or misrepresenting things to make anything sane look immoderate and unrealistic..
Bloody perverts and cults..what is everyone else doing??? I will do that! And still jostle my way ahead!
Faugh..bah..
You will all look really silly at the very least and that cannot not matter to such image obsessed, reputation management oriented sleazy narcissists..it is really disgraceful.
And I cannot keep glumly looking at new entrants into these foul frays and trying to reason like that stupid Richard Gadd and his atrocious and overrated show.
That guy was so sleazy..he really knew how to appeal to these lame-brained, cowardly internet mob types..
I should be reasoning, after all the creeps and sleazebags I have seen, am I not obligated to put up with a rainbow coalition of new frauds and creeps. It seems only fair really. Should I not have more diversity in my groping perverts? They have not been very many, but they all been Indian to date..keeps it in the community I guess..
What can be more egalitarian?!
I am inclusive! Of all perverts and creeps and hucksters! South Africans next!!! I have even read the unedited version of Robert Ruarks Uhuru and it never made me susceptible to racist propaganda or an ass like Elon Musk or David Sacks or that entire disgraceful cabal.
I never thought Musk was green or a democrat for a day and I retain my military brat conservative youth and use it to distinguish racist grifters who dont give a shit from about anything from confused people with serious issues. So there!
I am proud to have disliked Elon Musk long before it was cool. I try hard not to be a bloviating bullshitter and do not like people who get away with it. Now he is a candidate for coercive psychiatry. Yeah I bet you will get right on that. You are so concerned about mental health and safety and you hand your federal govt over to a prolifically breeding, ketamine addled nutjob with rocket explosions in his wake and enact draconian shit on derivisive, stoner female postdocs from India (my brand!). Sounds responsible.
But I do think it is dereliction of duty at scale by the msm to give openings to an ass like Musk by failing to report the mass rape in Germany or the grooming gangs in London or gloss over the effects of human overpopulation as it leaves a loophole for malicious people like Tucker Carlson, Anne Coulter etc to make life harder for undocumented workers, nonwhite people etc.
Must everything be spelt out about human logic 🙄?
You guys are really bright. Huge fan over here
Thanks for making me out myself as not completely stupid! That seemed like a reflexively smart move (brain damage aside) around the endlessly stupid and with some harried scientists who correctly concluded I could fend for myself. But the collateral damage was too much and next it will be you, you idiots.
What do they pay those admins for anyway..Going around saying durrrrrrrr..I have no power over anything..durrrrrr.
Beware..I blackmail..I shall mock you. With text not stupid radio messages that have unintended consequences, because I am not ready to give up on the sole form of communication I like-text and written english.
And that is a totally sycophantic take. But well..even my mentor, whom I respect (odd life choices aside..the elite are strange and unreadable people..), has to work under those types..
I shall not be beagle to my mentors Dr Fauci in bloody airubbishgate! And just because someone weathers psychological torture doesnt mean it wasnt that and remains that.
Work remains hobbled.
How could I overlook this tiny, inconsequentiality??!!
And I am never responding to you (well okay except rarely where I genuinely like you and even there it is dicey). That is misperception that any response is about you. I take your garbage and make it my own garbage! Ai sucks..
I have been moving left and in pursuit of respectable publicly funded science in my narrow field all my life and will continue that, however ambigous/bleak the prospects. How weak willed do you have to be to be swayed by every stray wind? Genuine change felt deep inside not motivated by shame and hectoring is different. This is for children not human adults, however misrepresented. OlOrlick thought he had problems..lol..
Deminpenn
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