WHEN WE GET BACK TO THE AI TABLE, ZUCKERBERG'S FIRST MOVE IS A LAYOFF

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By Azuma@azuma ethI'm not sure

Reuters's exclusive report on April 18 revealed to three informed sources that Meta of Zuckerberg was planning to launch the first round of this year's massive lay-offs on May 20, and will continue to do so。

One source of information says that the government is not a partyMeta will cut global staff by about 10 per cent in the first round of layoffs (approximately 79,000 total staff), or about 8000I don't know. According to another source, Meta is planning further layoffs later this year, but the exact time and scale have not yet been finalizedAs AI capacity development is observed on an ongoing basis, the plan may be adjusted by Meta management。

In another Reuters article last month, it was also revealed that Meta was considering a 20 per cent reduction or even more。

As of the date of the communication, Meta refused to comment on the timing and size of the reduction。

Ten days ago, Meta just caught up with the AI Major

Just 10 days ago, Meta's al development team, led by its high-priced Chinese genius Alexandr Wang, Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, MSL, just released its first self-study AI model, Muse Spark。

Alexandr Wang disclosed that in the last nine months, MSL has rebuilt the entire AI technology vault from scratch。Muse Spark is a prototype of original multi-modular reasoning that supports the use of tools, visual chain thinking and multi-Agent programming。This is the most powerful model Meta has ever published. In the course of training, MSL observed predictable scale-up of models at the pre-training, intensive learning and reasoning stages of testing。

Muse Spark also supports the "Contempplating Mode" model, which is dedicated to complex scientific issues and to the task of reasoning by organizing multiple parallel reasonings. During the test, MSL found that its performance could compete with extreme reasoning models such as Gemini Deep Think and GPT Pro。

As the first substantial landing product after Meta's heavy deposit AI and its shift to closed source mode, Muse Spark is generally considered by the market to be the beginning of the first team of Meta's pursuits of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and othersWhile Meta also recognizes that the model is partly less capable than the flagship model of the first three companies, for Zuckerberg, who has long been out of the AI race because of the collapse of the Llama route, Muse Spark and the subsequent model of the same series are enough leverage for him to return to the AI table。

The market has also given positive feedback on Muse Spark, and on that day Meta closing bid was $612.42, a 6.5 per cent increase, followed by a 10-day hike (and, of course, by the overall roll-up), which amounted to $688.55 yesterday。

AI'S BLADE FELL ON THE STAFF FIRST

At the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Meta had launched the controversial “Year of Efficiency” project, which had led to the largest reduction in the company's staff, with approximately 21,000 jobs. And this time, it is likely to be the largest round of staff reductions in Meta since the "year of efficiency"。

Meta was faced with a huge decline in stock prices and excessive growth pressures during the epidemic, compared to the “year of efficiency” period, and today Meta is clearly more financially sound, but the future for executives is one of less management and more efficient organizational structures with AI support。

Last monthCoverageIndicates that it learned from documents leaking inside Meta that the goal set for Meta is to promote more active use of the AI tool by staff within the MetaBY MID-2026, 65% OF ENGINEERS WOULD NEED 75% OR MORE OF THE CODE TO BE PREPARED BY AI。

On the other hand, according to the information about the downsizing of the X-Focus plant, it is a private medium@LayoffAI) Disclosure (no source, no authenticity): “From this year onwards, Meta has incorporated `AI-driven impact' into the performance appraisal of all employees and has become a core indicator. If AI is not used, promotion cannot be obtained. Meta has become the first major technology company to formally link the use of AI to promotion.”

AI WHITE COLLAR, IT'S A LONG TIME AGO

RETRENCHMENT ON THE BASIS OF “AI ITERATIVE PRODUCTIVITY” IS NO LONGER AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE。

In October of last year, as many as 30,000 jobs were lost in Amazonia, involving logistics, payments, video games and cloud computing. Andy Jassy, the chief executive officer of the company, had earlier been retrenched:AS COMPANIES INCREASINGLY USE AI TO CARRY OUT THEIR ORIGINAL HUMAN TASKS, THE AMAZON WORKFORCE MAY BE REDUCED。It's not the same

At the end of February this year, Jack Dorsey (also the founder of Twitter) announced that Block, a financial technology company, had announced 4000 jobs, reducing the total number of employees from more than 10,000 to less than 600, in order to promote a leaner, flatten organizational structure with AI at its core. According to Amrita Ahuja, the chief finance officer and chief operating officer of BlockFollowing the company's announcement of a reduction, a large number of business executives approached Block and sought to replicate the “playbook”。

• Note: For more details seeJack Dorsey's company, 4,000 white collars are being eliminated by AII don't know。

Earlier this week, Snap, a direct competitor of the Meta core product Instagram, also lost about 1,000 jobs, and his CEO, Evan Spiegel, said:AI WILL ENABLE OUR TEAMS TO REDUCE DUPLICATION OF EFFORT, INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND BETTER SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITIES, PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS。It's not the same

Today, the same wind has been blown to Menlopak, California, and Zuckerberg has carried his sword。

Oh, yeah, one more thing to mention. Although Jack Dorsey, at the time of the lay-off, claimed that "the rapid development of AI is reproducing the traditional paradigm of productivity growth,"But soon after the staff cuts, many of the laid-off employees were invited back to work(For further details, seeTHE FIRST MAJOR FACTORY TO BE CUT OFF BY AI HAS RETURNED TO WORK)

AI, a white collar, may eventually become a reality, but it's easy to cut jobs in a rush like Block, 40%, and "too big to get to the balls."。