Meta's chief AI officer addressed layoffs in the Superintelligence Labs unit. Read his full memo. (www.businessinsider.com)

Meta is cutting roughly 600 roles inside its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the company confirmed after an internal memo from chief AI officer Alexandr Wang was obtained by Business Insider. Wang framed the reductions as a move to make MSL “more agile and talent-dense,” saying fewer people will mean faster decisions, broader scope and more impact per individual. North American employees affected have been notified; EMEA staff are undergoing consultation. Meta says it’s supporting most impacted employees with an expedited internal recruiting “tiger team,” and insists the change does not signal reduced investment — the company will continue hiring “AI-native” talent while pursuing its models, ambitious compute plans, and products on a path toward what it calls “superintelligence.” For the AI/ML community, the cuts are a signal of organizational consolidation rather than a retreat from compute- and research-heavy ambitions. Technically, the memo emphasizes ongoing model training and large-scale compute commitments, implying Meta intends to prioritize concentrated, high-leverage expertise and faster product cycles over broader headcount. The restructuring could accelerate decision-making and productization of large models, but may also disrupt longer-term research pipelines, collaboration bandwidth, and open-science initiatives as teams are streamlined and talent redistributed.