Dozens of AI Researchers Leave Big Labs to Start Neolabs
Original title: Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets
Ex-OpenAI and DeepMind leaders founded neolabs raising billions to pursue alternative approaches to scaling.
Prominent AI researchers have left major labs to start their own companies. Examples include Safe Superintelligence founded by Ilya Sutskever, AMI by Yann LeCun, and others. These neolabs bet on changing how AI learns, perceives the world, solves problems or computes. Funding follows with Nvidia investing in Safe Superintelligence.
- Ilya Sutskever founded Safe Superintelligence
- Yann LeCun founded AMI after leaving Meta
- Flapping Airplanes raised one billion dollars
- Adaption bets on continual learning instead of scaling
- Neolabs focus on research gaps left by big labs
From the original article
14 min read at the-decoder.com
OpenAI is talking about the AGI era, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. At the same time, co-creators of today's models are leaving OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta to start their own labs, raising billions with no product to show. Why?
By Maximilian Schreiner · the-decoder.com
A short excerpt; the article and its images belong to the publisher. Summary, key facts and assessment above are AI-written from the article and can be wrong.