Meta Platforms has frozen hires in the artificial intelligence department, after months of recruitment of more than 50 artificial intelligence researchers and engineers, according to people who know the subject.

The decision, according to the Wall Street Journal, came into force last week and coincides with a broader restructuring that prohibits internal workers’ movements between groups.

The exceptions

There may be exceptions to the “freeze” for external recruitment, but it will take permission from Meta’s artificial intelligence chief Alexandr Wang, sources said.

A company spokesman said it was a “basic organizational plan”, as the company wants to build a steady structure for its initiatives in over -mourning, after incorporating new staff and annual budget procedures.

Meta divided its efforts into four individual groups: one for the development of mechanical supernatural (“TBD Lab”), one for AI products, one for technological infrastructure and one for long -term projects. They are all subject to the “Meta Superintelligence Labs”, reflecting Mark Zuckerberg’s ambition to create AI capable of overcoming humans in cognitive skills.

The previous group “Agi Foundations”, which was responsible for Llama models, was dismantled after the disappointing performance of the latest editions.

Gold contracts

Since spring, Mark Zuckerberg personally involved researchers recruiting, even sending messages through WhatsApp to Openai and Google Deepmind executives.

Bids reached $ 100 million in some cases, while in a scientist the proposal reached $ 1.5 billion.

He also secured the collaboration of Wang, co -founder of Scale AI, paying 14 billion for a shareholder share of his company.

By mid -August, Meta had hired more than 50 executives from Openai, Google, Apple, Xai and Anthropic.

Investor concern

According to the Wall Street Journal, investors’ growing concern about the cost of developing artificial intelligence of technological giants has played a role in the massive sale of this week’s technological shares. On August 18, analysts by Morgan Stanley warned that the rapidly increasing remuneration based on the shares offered by Meta and Google to attract artificial intelligence talents could threaten their ability to return capital to shareholders. Excessive talent costs, analysts noted, “have the opportunity to lead to innovations in artificial intelligence with mass value creation or could reduce the value of shareholders without clear innovation profits.”