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Coming soon: a new episode of Penn Engineering's Innovation & Impact podcast featuring Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and a Turing Award winner. In the episode, Dean Vijay Kumar and LeCun discuss his early work with neural networks and why LLMs may be obsolete in 5 years.

At #LlamaCon2025, we're not just celebrating technology – we're celebrating the open source community that makes it all possible. Join us as we recognize the transformative impact of our developer community and the amazing things they've achieved with Llama. You’ll hear the

We've reached 50,000+ signatures on our open letter to the record labels suing the Internet Archive. If you have a moment, please sign ⬇️

We are open-sourcing all the models in Web-SSL, from ViT-L to ViT-7B! It was super fun to train and play with these massive ViTs. Models: huggingface.co/collections/fa… Github: github.com/facebookresear… Huge credit to David Fan for putting these models together!

The Felon-in-Chief really, really, REALLY hates this Fox graphic. So whatever you do, don’t share it anywhere. 😈

The main source of basic science funding, the NSF, has stopped awarding new grants and the NSF director, a Trump appointee, has stepped down.

One thing that the MAGA movement and Putin's Russia have in common is that they build nothing. They only destroy.

Another reason to mark your calendar for the #AIforGood Global Summit 2025: the great #AI debate! 🗣 nxthompson, CEO of The Atlantic, will moderate a headline session featuring Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, the godfathers of AI! Join us for free or go VIP! 🌐

Nostalgia forgets pessimism: It forgets novel reading was frowned upon It forgets the moon mission was unpopular It forgets the walkman was anti-social It forgets the bicycle 'corrupted' women After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad?

Chat w/ Léon Bottou, legendary researcher behind CNNs w/ Yann LeCun and pioneer of large-scale SGD when it was controversial He also worked on learning-inspired compression w/ Yann, DjVu I asked 2nd order SGD - he tried it again but still found it unstable Inspiring conversation!

Academia and tech need to stand together. Visa revocations and green card denials of our best and brightest in both spheres hurts American competitiveness, economic opportunity, and even national security.

Starting now. eventbrite.sg/e/nus120-disti…

1/I haven't written a thread of one of my posts for a long time, so I thought I'd do one today. Today's post is about how MAGA isn't going to rebuild America. noahpinion.blog/p/maga-doesnt-…

Watching Zhuang Liu's - "Transformers without Normalization", this slide is a reminder how our optimizer and architecture choices are coupled

That's a wrap for #ICLR2025! See you all next year in Brazil! Please all welcome Bharath Hariharan as the new Senior Program Chair! (With Carl Vondrick continuing on as General Chair.)

The most expensive mistake in American history: Choosing highways over high-speed rail. Meanwhile, Europeans travel between major cities in half the time at a fraction of the cost. Here's why Europe's transportation network leaves America's in the dust 🧵:

Researchgate sent me a fake paper called "The AI Health Revolution: Personalizing Care through Intelligent Case-based Reasoning" which claims to be by me and Yann LeCun. More than one third of the citations are to Shefiu Yusuf which may mean nothing.

more insightful summary than we authors can do!

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Hi, happy to share that our paper "Layer by Layer: Uncovering Hidden Representations in Language Models" was accepted to ICML as a spotlight! 🥳🥳🥳 Oscar Skean, Md Rifat Arefin, DanZhao, Jalal Naghiyev and Yann LeCun