AI translation firm DeepL cuts quarter of staff, citing AI

AI-powered language translation company DeepL said Thursday that it would cut about a quarter of its workforce as artificial intelligence had made the roles redundant.

About 250 of Cologne-based DeepL’s 1,000 employees would lose their jobs, chief executive officer and founder Jarek Kutylowski said in a post on LinkedIn.

“We are currently living through a massive structural shift in what work exists, who does it, and how many people it takes to do it well, and that shift is because of AI,” he said.