Slow down competition by hiring every talented AI engineer, starving the job market for as long as Meta can afford to.
But they are firing researchers/engineers now, why would they do that if the goal is to keep engineers from moving away.
Probably to prevent competitors from doing the same? I feel like the answer was in your question
They're only firing the grunts whose work their AI has already replaced. Thinning the herd.
More important is if they fire any managers that don’t make good strategic decisions…
So meta has developed AI that makes AI researchers obsolete? If that were the case why hire managers from Apple, they are just as useless as the grunts. And more importantly they must be actually pretty close to AGI and far ahead of the competition if the researchers are obsolete.
> So meta has developed AI that makes AI researchers obsolete