JAKARTA - DeepMind Technologies, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., was forced to close its office in the Canadian city of Edmonton. According to a spokesman for the AI company, this was carried out just days after the Google parent announced he would lay off 12,000 employees.
According to the spokesman, London-based DeepMind's Edmonton office is the only international site directly managed by artificial intelligence companies, making it much more resource intensive to operate. All other DeepMind sites are housed in Google-run offices.
The layoffs carried out by Alfabet follow thousands of layoffs at tech giants including Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Meta Platforms Inc, which cut costs and downsizing after foya-foya recruitment of employees caused by the pandemic. Now after the pandemic after that condition made them soft in a weak economy.
According to a spokesman as quoted by Reuters, researchers have been offered the option to move to another DeepMind office, such as DeepMind Montreal, which is based in the Google office in Montreal.
Google acquired DeepMind in 2014, putting the tech giant ahead in the AI race rather than most of its competitors. But competition increased after OpenAI chatbots, Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, increased investor interest in the promise of generative artificial intelligence.
Uber Freight's latest on Tuesday January 24 will also lay off about 150 employees, or about 3% of its workforce, as economic uncertainty suppresses demand for delivery services.
Uber Technologies' rideshare division said layoffs would be limited to its digital broker operations matching the sender to the truck driver who wanted to transport cargo.
Meanwhile, business and competition for AI are now increasingly prominent. Even Alphabet itself despite layoffs will still recruit employees for the AI sector.
"I am confident about the great opportunity ahead of us thanks to the strength of our mission, the value of our products and services, and our initial investment in AI," Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on January 20.
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