Last year, the Goal, a company led by Mark Zuckerberg, faced a challenging situation with the loss of approximately a third of its researchers specialized in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Despite significant investments in the area, Zuckerberg and his company have faced difficulties in remaining competitive in relation to competitors due to layoffs and the departure of researchers.
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In a landscape where AI continues to evolve rapidly, Meta seeks to establish itself as an industry leader alongside renowned companies such as OpenAI.
However, this mission has proven challenging, as several researchers at Meta, who have had their work in AI widely disclosed, left the company in the previous year due to burnout or lack of confidence, as revealed by “Wall Street Journal”.
Difficulties involving researchers
In 2013, Zuckerberg hired Yann LeCun, a respected AI expert who has been active for many years. when the area was merely speculative, to lead Meta's efforts to advance this technology.
Despite this, the company was excluded from the guest list for the White House summit on “companies at the forefront of AI innovation”.
Currently, Meta is committed to correcting past mistakes that diverted focus from generative AI, despite pleas from employees for the company to take a new direction.
Under LeCun's leadership, AI researchers struggled to advance large language models that are the foundation for programs like ChatGPT.
However, during an employee meeting in June, Zuckerberg praised the company's significant advances in AI, acknowledging the qualitative progress made over the last year.
In addition, Meta faced the departure of several researchers in 2022, many of them claiming exhaustion or uncertainty about the company's future in the field of AI, according to the "WSJ".
The situation got even worse when OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November, accelerating the race for AI innovation and resulting in the departure of even more employees.
An internal survey conducted between April and May revealed that only 26% of Meta employees who responded to the survey felt confident in the company's leadership. So far, Meta has not made any official comment.
In the earnings release released in February 2023, Zuckerberg mentioned the “year of efficiency”, at the same time that the company took drastic measures, laying off more than 11,000 employees last November and continuing to close projects in subsequent months, in order to seek greater operational efficiency and redirecting its efforts in the area of AI.