2025-10-24
Yuandong is well-respected within Meta, detail oriented, and technically sharp — this layoff doesn't make sense and my hunch is that it might be targeted towards ex-GenAI people. Meta's loss, but could be your win if you hiring frontier RL researchers ;)
Business Insider
Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit, citing a shift from manual reviews to a “consistent and automated process” that is delivering “reliable compliance outcomes”
this layoff doesn't make sense and my hunch is that it might be targeted towards ex-GenAI people. Meta's loss, but could be your win if you hiring frontier RL researchers ;) Linked...
2025-08-27
This is my last week at @AIatMeta. It was a tough decision not to continue with the new Superintelligence TBD lab, especially given the talent and compute density. But after 7.5 years across Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, I felt the pull to take on a different kind of risk.
Wired
Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta
CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.