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Llama wasn’t Yann LeCun’s work and he was openly critical of LLMs, so it’s not very relevant in this context. Source: himself https://x.com/ylecun/status/19938
by oefrha 7mo ago
Llama wasn’t Yann LeCun’s work and he was openly critical of LLMs, so it’s not very relevant in this context.
Source: himself https://x.com/ylecun/status/1993840625142436160 https://x.com/ylecun/status/1993840625142436160 (“I never worked on any Llama.”) and a million previous reports and tweets from him.
- alecco 7mo ago> My only contribution was to push for Llama 2 to be open sourced. Quite a big contribution in practice.
- oefrha 7mo agoSure, but I don't that's relevant in a startup with 1B VC money either. Meta can afford to (attempt to) commoditize their complement.
- rockinghigh 7mo agoHe founded FAIR and the team in Paris that ultimately worked on the early Llama versions.
- oefrha 7mo agoFAIR was founded in 2015 and Llama's first release was in 2023. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but no reasonable person credits ChatGPT in 2022 to him.