How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up
How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up
Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, posted an AI manifesto to his company's website in August. The 6,537-word missive resembled similar proclamations …
Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs out of several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to create a more agile operation
Meta is cutting several hundred roles from its AI unit even as it continues to hire for its newer TBD Lab, Axios has learned.
Sources: in recent weeks, Meta changed FAIR's publishing rules to require extra review, angering staff; Yann LeCun considered resigning over Meta's AI changes
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Sources: Meta plans its fourth AI restructuring in six months, dividing its superintelligence lab into TBD Lab, a product team, an infrastructure team, and FAIR
This is a company with a future. — www.reuters.com/business/met... J.M. Berger / @jmberger.com : Meta could have put its entire superintelligence operation under TBD, if you know what I mean. [embe...
Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang
RE: https://www.threads.com/... X: David Pfau / @pfau : So now there's a Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, but also Yann LeCun is still Chief AI Scientist for Meta. This feels like when ...
Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security
The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today.
Memo: Meta reorganizes its AI teams into an AI products team and AGI Foundations; FAIR remains separate but one specific FAIR team is moving to AGI Foundations
Ina Fried / Axios : Bluesky: @davelee.me . X: @shakeelhashim and @andrewcurran_ Bluesky: Dave Lee / @davelee.me : Is this like when you rub the batteries together to make the remote control work agai...
Some Meta insiders fear FAIR is “dying a slow death” as Joelle Pineau exits in May; Yann LeCun says it's “a new beginning” for “Advanced Machine Intelligence”
Meta VP of Generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained Llama 4 Maverick and Scout on test sets, saying that Meta “would never do that”
but the EU doesn't get everything Pascale Davies / Euronews : From a political shift to a more powerful AI: Everything to know about Meta's Llama 4 models Jay Bonggolto / Android Central : Meta is com...