Meta puts the brakes on massive AI talent spending spree
The Meta logo is seen at the Viva Technology Conference on 11 June 2025 at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center in Paris and France.
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Meta Platforms, in a statement on Thursday, stopped hiring for the new Artificial Intelligence Department, and AI researchers and engineers have received an expensive wave of recruitment, which has ended.
Pause before reported He said that the ice cream entered into force last week and refers to people familiar with the issue in the midst of the group’s re -structured.
In a statement shared with CNBC Meta The spokesman said that the pause is simply “some basic organization planning: bringing people to the ship and making annual budgeting and planning exercises to create a solid structure for our new superity efforts”.
According to the WSJ report, it recently devoted its restructuring AI efforts to four teams. This includes an AI product section called “TBD Laboratory” or “to be determined”, an infrastructure section, and a team called a part that focuses on long -term projects and discoveries.
He added that all of the four groups belong to “Meta Superintelligigence Labs”, reflecting the desire of General Manager Mark Zuckerberg to build AI that can perform better than the most intelligent people in cognitive tasks.
In pursuit of this goal, Meta spends an aggressive spending on AI this year. This included efforts to accelerate the best skills from other AI companies, and offers contain high signature bonuses up to $ 100 million.
In one of the most aggressive moves, meta acquired Alexandr Wang, the founder of Scale AI as a part of an agreement that saw a Feeder of 14.3 billion dollars for the AI attempt by the Facebook parent.
WANG has now focused on developing the Lama series of open -source language models.
Too much spend?
Meta’s aggressive recruitment strategy captures headlines for high price tags in recent months, while other Megacap technology companies are pouring billions of AI ability as well as billions of RES and AI infrastructure.
However, the sudden AI recruitment pause by the owner of Facebook and Instagram comes in the midst of increasing concerns about AI investments moving very quickly and the wider selling US technology stocks this week.
At the beginning of this week, Openai CEO Sam Altman reportedly told a group of journalists that AI believes that AI was on a bubble.
However, many technology analysts and investors do not agree with the AI balloon concept.
“Altman is the golden child of the AI revolution and there may be aspects of the AI food chain that show a little foam over time, but in general, we believe that technology stocks are worthless compared to this 4th Industrial Revolution.” He said.
He also rejected the idea that Meta could significantly reduce AI expenditures and said that it was just “digestive mode” after Meta’s great spending madness.
“I see the recruitment ice cream as a natural resting point for commodity, after making a few purchases and recruitment in the nine number of purchases and recruitment in the nine range, Dan
Before making more investment in AI teams, the company needs time to place and access the new ability and determined whether the company is ready to make the types of breakthroughs.
