First, FastText is very similar to (a superset of) Word2Vec. Secondly. RNNs are far from being endgame for anything. In fact, recent research has been moving aw

First, FastText is very similar to (a superset of) Word2Vec. Secondly. RNNs are far from being endgame for anything. In fact, recent research has been moving away from them towards more predictable and parallelizable methods (see, e.g., Google's Transformers, aka "Attention is all you need", or FAIR's approach to translation using CNNs).