Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
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Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#2Good for him. No one has done as much damage to AR/VR as FB did to it with the Metaverse. Way to make something cool fundamentally unlikable.
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#3It was obvious that there would be no space for Yann LeCun after Alexandr Wang came in. He was probably just waiting for the best time to leave.
I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to understand what exactly went wrong there.
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#4Good for him. No one has done as much damage to AR/VR as FB did to it with the Metaverse. Way to make something cool fundamentally unlikable.
I would actually put a lot of the blame for today's VR winter (or at least expectations cooldown) on Ready Player One, and particularly its movie adaptation. Not that it was bad per-se, but for me and others I spoke too it was so outlandish that it essentially made VR "jump the shark".
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#5Good for him. No one has done as much damage to AR/VR as FB did to it with the Metaverse. Way to make something cool fundamentally unlikable.
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Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#6It was obvious that there would be no space for Yann LeCun after Alexandr Wang came in. He was probably just waiting for the best time to leave. I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to understand what exactly went wrong there.
> he failed pretty bad at the LLM race
Was he even involved in this?
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#7I wonder if it means Meta will move away from their OSS commitment. Wasn't it largely pushed by LeCun?
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#8It was obvious that there would be no space for Yann LeCun after Alexandr Wang came in. He was probably just waiting for the best time to leave. I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to understand what exactly went wrong there.
> he failed pretty bad at the LLM race Was he even involved in this?
Did they even fail? Llama2 was groundbreaking for open source LLMs, it defined the entire space. Llama3 was a major improvement over Llama2. Just because Llama4 was underwhelming, it's silly to say they failed.
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#9I wonder if it means Meta will move away from their OSS commitment. Wasn't it largely pushed by LeCun?
Yes, it was
Re: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup
#10It was obvious that there would be no space for Yann LeCun after Alexandr Wang came in. He was probably just waiting for the best time to leave. I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to understand what exactly went wrong there.
> I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to understand what exactly went wrong there.
What? Until the Chinese jumped in Llama was the premium open source model. The reason that the Chinese were successful at MOE was just that they were limited with chips and had to think outside the box. US labs are operating on the power law. They also, arguably, distilled from western models (llama).