@cgtwts: > be Yann LeCun > spend years building JEPA at Meta > company focuses on LLaMA instead > his idea stays complicated and…
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Yann LeCun reportedly left Meta after JEPA was sidelined for LLaMA, founding AMI Labs to build a simplified version on commodity hardware.
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be Yann LeCun > spend years building JEPA at Meta > company focuses on LLaMA instead > his idea stays complicated and unused > robotics plans get dropped > decides to leave and start AMI Labs > builds a much simpler version from scratch > trains it on normal hardware in just a
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