Just a day after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced her plans to leave the company, the Silicon Valley giant’s vice president of artificial intelligence announced that she will be leaving later this month.
A day after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced she was leaving the company, The Verge reported that the company had lost its VP of AI, Jerome Pesenti. Pesenti has been the company’s vice president of AI for four years and plans to leave at the end of this month as Facebook integrates AI teams across multiple product lines rather than using it as a centralized organization.
Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
According to Andrew Bosworth, Facebook (now Meta) CTO, the change aims to “take advantage of the latest AI technologies across the company.” The company’s AI research team, led by Facebook’s chief AI scientist Jan LeCun, will be included in Bosworth’s Reality Labs division.
Reality Labs has already grown to more than 17,000 employees, as the company’s future of AI and augmented reality products is at stake. AI has become critical to Facebook’s vision for the future and will define the company’s online metadata warehouse.
“More centralized strategies reach their limits when the last mile is too far for teams to close the gap,” Bosworth wrote. “With this new team structure, we are excited to push the boundaries of what AI can do and use it to create new features and products for billions of people.”
Facebook has been going through tough times recently, including a hiring freeze.
Breitbart News reports:
Due to “slower-than-expected revenue growth,” Facebook has suspended company-wide hiring and has no intention of meeting its hiring targets set earlier in the year. According to the memo, the company’s concerns stem from changes in Apple’s privacy, the war in Ukraine, and the “general macroeconomic environment.”
The company is reportedly no longer taking on certain engineering positions and is starting to put recruits and low-level data scientists to rest. Many employees are starting to fear the impending layoff, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at an internal general meeting last week that no layoffs are planned.
“I can’t promise that we won’t have to sit here and rethink when things change,” Zuckerberg said. “But what I can tell you is we don’t expect to do that where we’re sitting right now. Instead, it’s important that we drive growth to levels we think will be manageable over time.”
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Source: Breitbart
