Meta Platforms has temporarily stopped hiring in its artificial intelligence department, the Wall Street Journal reported.

This hiring freeze comes after the company aggressively recruited over 50 AI researchers and engineers to bolster its capabilities in the competitive artificial intelligence landscape.

The hiring pause appears to be part of Meta's efforts to properly structure and organize its expanded AI workforce rather than indicating any retreat from artificial intelligence investments.

Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta went on a hiring spree after first making a significant investment in data labeling company Scale AI in June. As part of the deal, he also brought in Scale AI's co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead Meta's superintelligence unit as chief AI officer.

Wang wrote on X that he will be working alongside former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Wang also listed the names of other employees hired by Meta from rival companies OpenAI and DeepMind.

Last month, Meta also hired Apple's top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, Ruoming Pang, besides roping in two senior Apple AI researchers.

Meta had also made an attempt to lure a handful of senior researchers from a one-year-old startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. However, all the employees at Thinking Machines Lab rejected the offer.