What is Meta's 'Applied AI' unit?
Applied AI is the reorganized unit Meta reportedly funneled thousands of engineers into during its AI restructuring. Former employees have described its management structure — with a roughly 50-to-1 ratio of employees to managers — as chaotic enough to earn the internal nickname 'gulag.'
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