November 20th message, just now, Turing PrizeLordMeta Yann LeCu, chief artificial intelligence scientistYang LikunIn Threads, an official announcement was made that he would leave Meta and start a business。
In his statement on his departure, Yang Liqun said:I'm starting a start-up companyIN ADDITION, THE PROJECT "AMI OF ADVANCED MACHINE INTELLIGENCE" (AMI) HAS BEEN LAUNCHED IN THE PAST FEW YEARS AT FAIR, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND ELSEWHERE。
ACCORDING TO ITS PRESENTATION, THE COMPANY'S GOAL IS THE NEXT AI CHANGE - TO CREATE SYSTEMS THAT UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICAL WORLD, HAVE LASTING MEMORY, REASON AND PLAN COMPLEX SEQUENCES OF ACTIONS。
It is worth mentioning that Meta will be a partner in the new companyThe latter is therefore particularly grateful to Zuckerberg, Andrew Bosworth, Chris Cox and Mike Schroepfer for their support of the FAIR and AMI projects。
Yang Liqun stressed that the independent entity was chosen to maximize its broad reach。And he will be working in Meta until the end of this year, and more details about the new company will be published at the right time。
According to information received, Yang Liqun joined Facebook in 2013 and became the founding director of the Basic Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)。
And in June this year, Meta invested heavily in Scale AI, and Meta CEO Zuckerberg appointed his CEO Alexander Wang as the new leader of Meta's super-smart lab, leading to a change in Yang Liqun's reporting structure。
BESIDES, ZUCKERBERG AND YANG LIQUON STILL HAVE AN AI STRATEGY DISAGREEMENT. THE FORMER MOVE TO THE RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND AI PRODUCTS, WHILE THE LATTER ARE OPENLY SCEPTICAL ABOUT LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, ARGUING THAT THEY CAN NEVER REACH HUMAN-LEVEL REASONING AND PLANNING CAPABILITIES。
According to Forbes earlier, a number of former employees in Meta have stated that the FAIR sector has been "slowly moving towards extinction" as the company has prioritized business-oriented AI teams rather than long-term research。