Meta is planning large layoffs, which may be the largest such action since November 2022, when the company announced the layoff of 11,000 people. employees, i.e. 13 percent the crew at that time. As Reuters reminds, four months later the company announced the reduction of another 10,000 jobs. jobs. Now Meta is trying to compensate for expensive investments in AI in this way. People who will stay in the company will increase their efficiency with the support of artificial intelligence. The cuts have not been officially announced yet, and it is not known exactly how many employees will be laid off. According to sources, however, the wave of reductions is expected to be large.
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Ambitious plans and expensive investments Meta
Top managers at Meta recently received instructions according to which they would have to limit activities in individual departments. When asked by Reuters about these plans, Meta spokesman Andy Stone said only that the insider's reports were “speculation” around “theoretical concepts.”
At the end of December 2025, Meta employed almost 79,000. people. Over the past year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pushing to make the company more competitive in AI. The company offered a huge salary to attract top AI researchers to its new superintelligence team. She also announced that she plans to invest USD 600 billion. in the construction of data centers by 2028
A few days ago, Meta announced that it is acquiring Moltbook, a social platform created for AI agents. Meta also spent at least $2 billion. for the purchase of the Chinese startup AI Manus, reports Reuters. The investments are intended to increase the company's efficiency with the participation of a smaller number of employees than before.
