Llama wasn’t Yann LeCun’s work and he was openly critical of LLMs, so it’s not very relevant in this context.
replySource: himself https://x.com/ylecun/status/1993840625142436160 (“I never worked on any Llama.”) and a million previous reports and tweets from him.
He founded FAIR and the team in Paris that ultimately worked on the early Llama versions.
reply> My only contribution was to push for Llama 2 to be open sourced.
replyQuite a big contribution in practice.
Sure, but I don't that's relevant in a startup with 1B VC money either. Meta can afford to (attempt to) commoditize their complement.
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