Mark Zuckerburg’s tech behemoth Meta is struggling to keep its AI projects afloat as it struggles to retain top talent in order to compete with rivals such as Google, Open AI, and others.
Meta & it’s AI projects
Despite the CEO’s significant investment in AI, Meta’s progress in this area has been hampered by recent layoffs and the departure of key researchers, causing a halt in their progress. Several factors, including job burnout and a lack of trust in strategic direction, have contributed to this situation.
Notably, Yann LeCun, whom Zuckerberg hired in 2013 to lead AI efforts, was conspicuously absent from the White House’s recent “Companies at the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence Innovation” summit.
Representatives from prominent organizations such as Google and OpenAI, on the other hand, were present at the same event.
Meta’s employees are advocating for the company to embrace a new approach to AI in response to the imperative for a change in direction.
They are urging the company to correct previous mistakes that led to a shift away from generative AI, an area where Meta had previously demonstrated promise.
During LeCun’s tenure as CEO, AI researchers faced difficulties in effectively advancing large language models and making significant progress with expansive models like ChatGPT.
Despite these challenges, Zuckerberg praised the company’s recent AI advancements in a meeting with employees in June. He emphasized a number of notable advances in the field of generative AI.
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