Meta begins job cuts at Reality Labs in a shift to AI devices

Meta has a Reality Labs presence in Cork

Anne O’Leary, Head of Meta Ireland and Michael McGrath, EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, Rule of Law and Consumer Protection pictured at Reality Labs in Meta’s Cork office. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.

Meta Platforms is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and phone features.

Affected employees will be notified of the layoffs starting Tuesday morning, according to an internal post from Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth seen by Bloomberg. The cuts are expected to hit roughly 10% of employees within the Reality Labs group, which has about 15,000 workers.