Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

Guaranteed this is them cleaning out the old guard, its either axe them, or watch a brutal political game between legacy employees and new LLM AI talent

Fortunately there's probably a lot of opportunity for those 600 out there.

While ex-FAIR people should have little problem finding a job, the market for paying research folks that level of TC and working on ambitious research projects, unless you're in a very-LLM specific space, is absolutely shrinking.

It certainly feels like the end of an era to see Meta increasingly diminishing the role of FAIR. Strategically it might not have been ideal for LeCun to be so openly and aggressively critical of the this current generation of AI (even if history will very likely prove him correct).

FAIR?

FAANG typo, or is there a new acronym?

> FAIR?

> FAANG typo, or is there a new acronym?

FAIR is the Meta AI unit (Fundamental AI Research) at issue, as spelled out in the second sentence of the article.