Sources: Meta's Scale AI bet came from Mark Zuckerberg wanting new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, Meta executives' relationships with Alexandr Wang, and more
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months.
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@prietschka
Paul Rietschka
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This won't save LLAMA, it will only enrich Wang and Guo. [embedded post]
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@raddiaccount
Xi JinPing Me
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jack rae?!! isnt he leading reasoning at deepmind, that's crazy
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@tsgiles
Tom Giles
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Another scoop from the Bloomberg Tech team on Meta's AI Lab ambitions. They've hired @jack_w_rae, one of the top researchers from Google Deep Mind.
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@shiringhaffary
Shirin Ghaffary
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NEW: More details on Meta's new “superintelligence” team Meta has hired top Google DeepMind researcher @jack_w_rae and Johan Schalkwyk, ML lead of popular voice assistant app, Sesame. Plans to hire up to 50 ppl, including a chief scientist, per sources. w/ @KurtWagner8 [image]
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@dylan522p
Dylan Patel
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Meta Scale AI deal is wild Lotta folks are criticizing it Multiple labs now backing away from Scale data Meta fell behind despite lotta spend on compute + team + data Snagging @alexandr_wang + crazy salaries for talent Is it desperation or leadership? What should they have done?