Why Meta Just Froze AI Hiring & What It Really Means - David Sacks

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Meta was looking at downsizing its AI division as part of a larger restructuring. Wall Street Journal then reported Meta has a hiring freeze across the AI divisions, which is just crazy because just eight weeks ago, Zuck went crazy. He was trying to buy Ilia's uh super intelligence startup.You remember Ilia declined. So, Zuck poached Daniel Gross. Meta Aqua hired the scale AI team and then they agreed to invest 14 billion in that.Sam Waltman claimed Zuck was maki ...