Meta has recently experienced a significant loss in talent within its AI division, with three top employees departing the company in a span of just one week. The departures come amidst the ongoing battle for top talent in Silicon Valley.
The first departure was Devi Parikh, who served as Meta's senior director of generative AI for over seven years. Following her exit, Erik Meijer, the senior director of engineering leading the machine learning research team Probability at Meta, also announced his departure. Meijer expressed that the competitive pressure in the industry led him to believe there was no advantage in remaining within a large corporation to innovate.
