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: 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 ...
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”
A profile of, and interview with, Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau on her career path, the FAIR lab, leading ~1,000 people across 10 locations, and more
Meta's head of research into the technology explains the career path that led to weighing questions on society's future X: @cristinacriddle X: Cristina Criddle / @cristinacriddle : One of my favourite...
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which is responsible for Llama, is made up largely of women; sources say ~60% of FAIR's leadership team are women
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : X: @aiatmeta , @jpineau1 , @semafor , @tarantulae , and @shireenyates . LinkedIn: Joelle Pineau X: @aiatmeta : @jpineau1 ❤️ Joelle Pineau / @jpineau1 : If being an outlier...
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which is responsible for Llama, is made up largely of women; sources say ~60% of FAIR's leadership team are women
In the high stakes, brutally competitive AI race, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been an outlier. While most of the big foundation … X: @aiatmeta , @shireenyates , @semafor , @tarantulae , and @jpineau1 ...