How many folks in Meta AI division? (Is it 600? 650? Is it 600? 1200? 12000?)
Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
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Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#182From a quick online search: - OpenAI's mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. - Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. - Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Lets just take these three companies, and their self-defined mission…
Re: "What is a productive way they can use LLMs in any of their flagship products today" - with LLMs users would not interact with other users and also users would not leave the platform.
Meta's actual mission is to keep people on the platform and to do what can be done so users do not leave the platform. I found out that from this perspective Meta's actions make more sense.
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#183Meta is fumbling hard. Winning the AI race is about marketing at this point - the difference between the models is negligible. Chat GPT is the one on everyone's lips outside of technology, and in the media. They have a platform by which to push some kind of assistant but where is it? I log into facebook and it's buried in the sidebar as Meta AI. Why aren't they shoving it down my throat? They have a huge platform of…
OpenAI marketing and hype feels like things we've seen before.
Just like Adam Neuman who was reinventing the concept of workspaces as a community.
Just like Elizabeth Holmns who was revolutionizing blood testing.
Just like SBF who pioneered a new model for altruistic capitalism.
And so many others.
Beware of prophets selling you on the idea that they alone can do something nobody has ever done before.
Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#184Meta have no idea what they are doing. They try too hard to be cool kids.
Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#185From a quick online search: - OpenAI's mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. - Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. - Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Lets just take these three companies, and their self-defined mission…
The traditional way of responding to this is the usual collective emulation of Struggle Sessions but I can easily come up with a couple of plausible answers for you:
* LLM translation is far better than any other kind of translation. Inter-language communication is obviously directly related to human connection.
* Diffusion models allow people to express themselves in new ways. People use image macros and image memes to communicate already.
In fact, I am disappointed that no one has the imagination to do this. I get it. You guys all want to cosplay as oppressed Marxist-Leninists having defoliants dropped on you by United Fruit Corporation. But you could at least try the mildest attempt at exercising your minds.
Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#186If this impacted you - we are hiring at Magnetic (AI doc scanning and workflow automation for CPA firms). Cool technical problems, building a senior, co-located team in SF to have fun and build a great product from scratch
Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#187I love the sound of employees being more 'load bearing'. Meta seems like a fun place to work for (for however many months you last).
Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#188Because the AI works so well, or because it doesn't? > ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes in a memo seen by Axios. That's kinda wild. I'm kinda shocked they put it in writing.
I just assume they over hired. Too much hype for AI. Everyone wants to build the framework people use for AI nobody wants to build the actual tools that make AI useful.
I haven’t even thought of Meta as a competitor when it comes to AI. I’m a semi-pro user and all I think of when I think of AI is OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek/Qwen, plus all the image/video models (Flux, Seedance, Veo, Sora)
Meta is not even in the picture
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you asking questions about their PR department coordinated "Company missions"? Let me summarise their real missions: 1. Power and money 2. Power and money 3. Power and money How does AI help them make money and gain more power? I can give you a few ways...
Sometimes they mix it up and go for money and power.
sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power.
Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
#190If this impacted you - we are hiring at Magnetic (AI doc scanning and workflow automation for CPA firms). Cool technical problems, building a senior, co-located team in SF to have fun and build a great product from scratch https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30776/jobs
you can't drop a bookface link (use your external YC one) like this one:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/magnetic/jobs/77FvOwO-...