Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to steer its Basic AI Analysis (FAIR) lab, based on Bloomberg.
Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a analysis director for roughly 5 years, per his LinkedIn. Previous to Google, he labored as a researcher scientist at Meta.
Meta’s FAIR, which has been round since 2013, has confronted challenges in recent times, based on a report from Fortune. FAIR led analysis on the corporate’s early AI fashions, together with Llama 1 and Llama 2. Nevertheless, researchers have reportedly departed the unit en masse for different startups, corporations, and even Meta’s newer GenAI group, which led the event of Llama 4.
Meta’s earlier VP of AI Analysis, Joelle Pineau, introduced in April she’d be leaving the corporate for a brand new alternative.
