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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Rebuff5007 ◴[22 Oct 25 18:46 UTC] No.45673440[source]▶
From a quick online search:

- OpenAI's mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.

- Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

- Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

Lets just take these three companies, and their self-defined mission statements. I see what google and openai are after. Is there any case for anyone to make inside or outside Meta that AI is needed to build the future of human connection? What problem is Meta trying to solve with their billions of investment in "super" intelligence? I genuinely have no idea, and they probably don't either. Which is why they would be laying of 600 people a week after paying a billion dollars to some guy for working on the same stuff.

EDIT: everyone commenting that mission statements are PR fluff. Fine. What is a productive way they can use LLMs in any of their flagship products today?

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1. ajkjk ◴[22 Oct 25 18:57 UTC] No.45673583[source]▶
each of those is of course an answer to the question "what's some PR bullshit we can say to distract people while we get rich"

After all it is clear that if those were their actual missions they would be doing very different work.