Yuchen Jin on Science

Meta laid off 600 people from its Superintelligence Lab today. Many FAIR researchers, including FAIR Research Scientist Director Yuandong Tian, were affected. I think Yann Lecun will leave soon. Maybe I should raise $2B and start a new frontier lab with these folks.

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