Meta Platforms(US:META) 硅谷101·2025-11-09 00:03Layoff & Personnel Changes - Meta AI laid off 600 employees in October 2025, including the research director of core departments [1] - High-level executives in charge of AI business left or were marginalized [1] - Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner, was also considered to be in a precarious position [1] AI Strategy & Development - Meta's Llama series was once the pride of the developer community after Yann LeCun joined Meta in 2013 to form FAIR laboratory [1] - After Llama 3's success, Meta's leadership was eager to productize, neglecting FAIR's exploration of cutting-edge technologies like chain of thought [1] - DeepSeek and OpenAI's inference impact led to internal chaos at Meta, temporarily drawing FAIR team to "put out the fire" [1] - Productization pressure led to technical imbalance and project failure [1] - Llama 4 faced a public relations crisis due to cheating rumors and release rhythm issues [1] - Meta AI team was reorganized, with emphasis on "applying AI to products" [1] - Management chaos led to missing the "chain of thought" [1] - 28-year-old Alex Wang was given "unlimited privileges" and reorganized the AI department [1] Open Source Approach - Llama 1 was "accidentally leaked" and established a foundation with a "semi-open source" format [1] - Llama 2 was open and "commercializable", becoming popular in the developer community [1] - The Llama 3 series iterated rapidly, further approaching the closed-source camp [1]