Artificial intelligence (AI) and Meta pillars plan to leave the company: Yann LeCun, who held the title of vice president and scientific director of AI, intends to leave to found a start-up, according to an article in Financial Times published Tuesday 11 November. He spoke about the project with potential recruits and investors, it added Wall Street Journalstating, however, that these plans could still change and Mr LeCun remains at Meta. When contacted, the manager and the company had no comment. The 65-year-old Frenchman is one of the fathers of modern AI and – along with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton – received the prestigious Turing Prize in 2019 for his contributions to machine learning. In early 2013, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg himself convinced the researcher to join a private technology company, where he founded Fair’s internal laboratory for AI research. His departure from the company would represent a turning of the page, but it wouldn’t be too surprising, considering the changes Zuckerberg initiated in AI in recent months.
On June 13, Zuckerberg announced that he had invested more than 14 billion dollars (12.1 billion euros) to buy startup ScaleAI, but also to make its founder, Alexandr Wang, the new boss of AI research at Meta. The 28-year-old computer scientist was named head of Meta Super Intelligence Labs, a new structure responsible for overseeing various entities responsible for developing products or conducting research on AI, including Fair’s lab, which previously reported to Chris Cox, a lieutenant of Mr. Zuckerberg. A form of rejection of Mr. LeCun.
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