Meta Plans 20% Staff Cuts

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• •Meta's layoffs are driven by $600 billion in planned AI infrastructure costs, including data centers and superintelligence investments[1][2][6].
• •The company faced setbacks with Llama 4 models, including misleading benchmarks and shelving the Behemoth version, now developing Avocado model which underperforms expectations[1].
• •Meta spokesperson Andy Stone described the layoff reports as speculative and theoretical[1].
• •This would exceed the 21,000 jobs cut during the 2022-2023 'year of efficiency' in total scale[1][2].

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