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Jia Yangqing, former Facebook AI Architecture Director and LeptonAI founder, left NVIDIA one year after NVIDIA acquired his startup team. According to SemiAnalysis, reasons include DGX Lepton's performance not meeting expectations and disagreements with Jensen Huang over open-source commitments.
This article recounts in detail the story of Jia Yangqing developing the deep learning framework Caffe (originally named Decaf) from scratch during his time at Berkeley and choosing to open-source it, as well as his personal growth from a student to a technical leader.