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Meta Is Making ‘AI Core to How We Work’ by Embracing More Rival Tools

In its push to create an “AI-first” workplace, Meta is expanding employees’ access to tools from rivals such as Google and OpenAI, Business Insider has learned.The social media giant has been encouraging employees to integrate AI tools into nearly everything they do, according to multiple internal documents and posts seen…

Pay Cuts, Poaching, and Pivoting: Inside Scale AI After Meta

This summer, after Meta made a $14 billion investment in Scale AI and poached its 28-year-old founder, Alexandr Wang, and after A-list clients like OpenAI and Google halted work with the startup, a worker for Scale AI anxiously asked ChatGPT what it thought of his company’s fate. He knew the…

Meta Plans Budget Cuts for Reality Labs Group As It Doubles Down on AI

Meta is planning budget cuts and considering job cuts as part of that across its metaverse unit, according to a person familiar with the matter.The company is considering budget cuts of up to 30% within its Reality Labs division, which could impact employees working on its virtual spaces platform, Horizon…

I Was a Senior GenAI Director at Meta: 4 Tips for Getting AI Job

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 41-year-old Devi Parikh, who lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.The seed of my passion for AI was planted in the early 2000s when I studied electrical and computer engineering at college. I was exposed…

Meta Internal Documents Show Vibes AI Daily Active Users

Meta’s new Vibes AI feed has about 2 million daily active users as of November 9 and grew about 1% from the previous week, according to internal data viewed by Business Insider.The numbers, which haven’t been reported before, offer an early look at how many people open the dedicated AI…

Meta PMs Use Vibe Coding to Build Prototype Apps for Mark Zuckerberg

Meta’s product managers aren’t waiting on engineers to turn ideas into demos. Instead, they are vibe coding to design prototype apps themselves and presenting them directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.”PMs are actually vibe coding products, and we’re showing them to Zuck and leadership, and it’s allowing us to iterate and…