You seem extremely misinformed.
FAIR has *simultaneously* produced scientific breakthroughs, insanely popular open-source packages, libraries, and platforms (e.g. PyTorch), *and* had an *enormous* impact on the company.
Lots of technologies originally developed at FAIR made their
BIG TECH
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FAIR’s Scientific Breakthroughs and Open-Source Impact
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E/acc Movement Gains Momentum Despite Forbes Controversy
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Standing in solidarity with @beffjezos and the e/acc movement. It was a lame move by Forbes, but we won't be deterred. It's time to accelerate even more…
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FAIR Research Impact Versus AT&T Bell Labs Legacy
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In many ways, FAIR is *better* than AT&T Bell Labs.
It was quasi impossible to open source code at AT&T.
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Open Research in Industry Labs: Path to Academia
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The number of industry labs that practice open research and encourage scientists to publish can be counted on the finger of one hand (if that).
FAIR is famous for that.
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FAIR Researchers Career Transitions: Faculty Positions and Hirings
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I haven't kept a list.
it's quite a few, mostly in the last 2 or 3 years because FAIR is still young.
Also, many have done the opposite: quitting a tenure faculty position to come to FAIR.
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Non-obvious AI developments beyond major corporate shake-up
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For Friday’s issue, a recap of some of the non-obvious stuff that happened in AI outside of that one guy getting kicked out of the office for a bit
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Anthropic Founded by OpenAI Researchers After For-Profit Pivot
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Cloud Compute Consumption Shift Driven by AI Growth
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The other big shift we're seeing is a change in consumption in cloud compute. Snowflake's earnings signaled that there would be a rebound in consumption based pricing, and you hear about it more these days among startups. AI isn't the whole story, but it seems like a big part.
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Nvidia GPU Demand: Understanding the AI Hardware Gold Rush
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Nvidia Envy: understanding the GPU gold rush https://
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SpaceX Breaches Interstellar Void in 2067
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— Nathan Lands (@NathanLands) 2 décembre 2023
The Red Dwarf footage In the year of 2067, human ingenuity, under the stewardship of the entrepreneur @elonmusk and his enterprise @SpaceX, triumphed in breaching the interstellar void. The year 2055 marked the maiden voyage of these venturesome mechanical scouts, capable of