LeCun评xAI失败：人才流失致竞争力不足
Elon Musk built one of the largest AI compute clusters on earth. Yann LeCun just explained why xAI now rents it out to rivals instead of winning with it. Musk has antagonized so much AI talent he structurally cannot hire the people he needs.
LeCun is not a critic on the sidelines. He won the Turing Award and ran AI at Meta for a decade. When he talks about who can and cannot build a frontier lab, he is describing his own world.
His verdict on xAI was blunt. He called it kind of a failure and did not soften it.
His reasoning had nothing to do with money. The founding team left or was fired. There is some uncertainty about which. Either way, the people who started the company are gone.
That is the part that matters. A frontier lab is its researchers. Lose them and the compute is just hardware.
By March, all eleven co-founders Musk recruited in 2023 had walked out. Researchers who came from DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI. Musk himself posted that xAI was not built right the first time and had to be rebuilt from the foundations up.
So Musk is left with one of the biggest clusters on earth and no way to win with it. He rents it out to other companies to recoup the cost.
The most expensive infrastructure in AI, built by someone who can no longer staff it.
Asked directly if xAI can compete at the frontier, LeCun gave a one word answer.
No.
What do you guys think about this?
Source: CNBC International Live
LeCun is not a critic on the sidelines. He won the Turing Award and ran AI at Meta for a decade. When he talks about who can and cannot build a frontier lab, he is describing his own world.
His verdict on xAI was blunt. He called it kind of a failure and did not soften it.
His reasoning had nothing to do with money. The founding team left or was fired. There is some uncertainty about which. Either way, the people who started the company are gone.
That is the part that matters. A frontier lab is its researchers. Lose them and the compute is just hardware.
By March, all eleven co-founders Musk recruited in 2023 had walked out. Researchers who came from DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI. Musk himself posted that xAI was not built right the first time and had to be rebuilt from the foundations up.
So Musk is left with one of the biggest clusters on earth and no way to win with it. He rents it out to other companies to recoup the cost.
The most expensive infrastructure in AI, built by someone who can no longer staff it.
Asked directly if xAI can compete at the frontier, LeCun gave a one word answer.
No.
What do you guys think about this?
Source: CNBC International Live