Meta Platforms(US:META) Zhi Tong Cai Jing·2025-10-22 22:33Group 1 - Meta announced the layoff of approximately 600 positions in its Superintelligence Labs, which is a small fraction of the thousands of employees in that department, aiming to make the AI organization more agile and responsive [1] - The layoffs will affect the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) department and related teams focused on product AI and AI infrastructure, while the newly established TBD Lab remains unaffected [1] - Meta's Chief AI Officer, Alexandr Wang, stated that reducing team size will enhance decision-making efficiency and broaden the responsibilities, influence, and output of team members [1] Group 2 - Meta recently secured a $27 billion private financing agreement with Blue Owl Capital, marking the largest private capital collaboration in the company's history, which will fund its largest data center project to date [1] - Analysts suggest that this move will help Meta advance its ambitious AI goals while transferring significant upfront capital investment and risk to external funding sources, allowing Meta to retain a smaller equity stake but maintain strategic control [1] - In June, Meta restructured its AI team by merging foundational models, product AI, and the FAIR team into Superintelligence Labs, following a period of senior personnel turnover and poor market feedback for its open model Llama4 [2]