Meta plans to cut 10 percent of its work force, or roughly 8,000 employees, and close another 6,000 open roles, according to an internal memo on Thursday, as the company spends heavily on developing artificial intelligence.
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, employed more than 78,000 people at the end of 2025. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, has said he expects much of the work done in the technology industry to eventually be overtaken by A. I.
-powered systems, including coding assistants that help engineers write software.
“We’re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making,” Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, said in the memo to employees.
“This is not an easy trade-off and it will mean letting go of people who have made meaningful contributions to Meta during their time here. ” A spokesman for Meta confirmed the cuts and declined further comment.
Across the technology industry, companies have been laying off employees as they experiment with A. I. In February, Block, the financial technology company that owns Square, Cash App and Tidal, said it was cutting 40 percent of its work force as it embraced new A. I. tools.
Microsoft on Thursday said it was offering buyouts to 7 percent of its work force as it invests in A. I. Mr. Zuckerberg is reorganizing his company around A. I. products in a fierce race to lead in the technology against rivals like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. He has made no secret of his A. I.
ambitions and has described developing A. I. -powered social media products that are a kind of “personal superintelligence” that he hopes people will incorporate into their daily lives.
“At Meta, we have the resources to build the massive infrastructure required and the ability to deliver new technology to billions of people,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in a video posted to his Facebook page in July. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.
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