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'I got drafted': Inside Meta's push to move 7,000 staff into its AI task force - Business Insider
From Business Insider via USVI News: Meta reassigned thousands of employees to a new AI task force during this week's layoffs. Some are anxious and confused about what comes next.
For thousands of Meta employees, it's now the AI way or the highway.
As 8,000 Meta employees were reading their layoff notices on Wednesday, 7,000 others opened a very different email. They had been selected to join a new AI initiative spun up directly by CEO Mark Zuckerberg — and it would be crucial to accelerating Meta's position in the AI race.
Many employees learned they would move into a group called Applied AI (AAI), which Meta created earlier this year, led by engineering vice president Maher Saba and reporting to chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth.
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