@ylecun: BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ESMFold in NYC Llama 1 in Pari…
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Yann LeCun disputes claims about Silicon Valley's dominance in AI innovation by listing key breakthroughs like Attention, PyTorch, and AlphaFold that originated in other locations such as Montreal, London, and Paris.
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@eladgil BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ESMFold in NYC Llama 1 in Paris. Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV DeepSeek in Hangzhou
Plus: DINO in Paris JEPA in Montréal+Paris+NYC
SV is 3 mos ahead on topics SV is singularly obsessed with.
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