Meta is planning major layoffs, possibly affecting over a fifth (or about 16,000) of its current 79,000 employees , as part of ongoing efforts to offset its substantial investments in artificial intelligence. Managers have been told to get ready for possible staffing reductions, though some company representatives have called such reports speculative. If carried out, the cutbacks would be the largest since major reorganizations in late 2022 and early 2023, when Meta fired 21,000 employees, reducing its workforce from 100,000 to about 79,000 today. The anticipated firings will lower Meta’s workforce to about 63,000 people.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been focusing his efforts on advancing in generative AI, offering major incentives to attract top researchers and forming a dedicated team for ‘super intelligent’ systems. Meta plans to spend hundreds of billions on new data centers by 2028 and has strengthened its AI capabilities through acquisitions, such as Moltbook and a Chinese startup named Manus. This follows a pattern across the American technology sector, as companies use technological advancements in AI to rationalize job reductions, evident in Amazon’s and Block’s recent staffing cuts. Although Meta has faced challenges with delayed updates and its Llama 4 line, it aims to recover its position by launching a new model called Avocado, but results so far have fallen far short of expectations.
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