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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.459s | source
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gip ◴[22 Oct 25 22:40 UTC] No.45676072[source]▶
Wang doesn’t strike me as an inspiring AI leader, and Meta’s AI leadership and strategy feel unclear.

Hopefully they’ll address that soon, because in the meantime OpenAI is executing and shipping.

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1. thenaturalist ◴[22 Oct 25 23:00 UTC] No.45676233[source]▶
> OpenAIs leadership and strategy feel unclear.

Fixed that for you.

Shipping a TikTok clone slop app and a keylogger browser while incinerating money and simultaneously talking a big game how AGI is imminent are the opposite of leadership or strategy.

More like acts of desperation to fill massively oversized shoes.

The ones who have been shipping quality consistently are the Chinese AI labs.

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2. gip ◴[22 Oct 25 23:34 UTC] No.45676503[source]▶
We can disagree on this. From a product perspective, I think they’ve delivered - bringing cutting-edge AI to hundreds of millions of people. They’re also making progress in specific verticals (Codex is really impressive when used well).

I can’t speak to the purely financial side, but it’s definitely possible they’re overextended.

3. another_twist ◴[23 Oct 25 05:05 UTC] No.45678317[source]▶
This feels overly critical. I think OpenAI definitely shipped quality stuff. It just seems like AI is not the crazy high margin engine everybody thought it would be. Or perhaps that for now, OpenAI is going the Google way of throwing a lot of stuff and checking what sticks. Not a bad way of executing tbh, atleast they're shipping.