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jeffreysmith
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- jeffreysmithWeird that this late, dupe thread came alive after this/my earlier submission didn't seem to get noticed: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45993118
- Totally. I don't get why people sleep on AI2's launches. They're such powerful platforms for AI R&D.
- I'm one of the many people who Soumith hired to Meta and PyTorch. I had the privilege of working on PyTorch with him and lots of the folks on this post.
As his longtime colleague, the one thing I would want people to know about him and this decision is that Soumith has always viewed PyTorch as a community project. He consistently celebrated the contributions of his co-creators Adam and Sam, and he extended the same view towards the Yangqing and the Caffe2 crew that we merged into PyTorch. At the very beginning, by Soumith's highly intentional design, PyTorch was aimed at being truly developed by and for the AI research community and for many years that was the key way in which we grew the framework, FB PT team, and the wider community. At every single stage of PT's lifecycle, he always ensured that our conception of PT and its community grew to include and celebrate the new people and organizations growing what was possible with PT. He's an incredible talent magnet, and thus more and more smart people kept dedicating their blood, sweat, and tears to making PT bigger and better for more people.
I've worked with some very well known and highly compensated leaders in tech, but *no one* has done the job he has done with ameliorating a bus factor problem with his baby. PT has a unique level of broad support that few other open source technology can reach. In a world of unbounded AI salaries, people who want to move AI research methods forward still freely give their time and attention to PyTorch and its ecosystem. It's the great lever of this era of AI that is moving the world, *due in large part* to the strength of the community he fostered and can now let continue without his direct involvement.
His departure is the end of an era, but it's also operationally a true non-event. PyTorch is going strong and can afford to let one of its creators retire from stewardship. This is precisely what success looks like in open source software.
He deserves our congratulations and our thanks. Enjoy your PT retirement, man.
- American here who went to a Chinese (grad) school for CS and was admitted to every Chinese school I applied to. This is very much a possible route, if you’re appropriately qualified for the program. The main issue is language: outside of HK, programs in English are rare.
- Not sure what's with the HN tone on this announcement. AI2 are really some of the best people around for creating truly open artifacts for the whole ecosystem. Their work on OLMo and Molmo is some of the most transparent and educational material you can find on model building. This is just great news for everyone.
- Howdy, HN. Authors here. We got tired of text-to-image leaderboards that only focus on aesthetics, so we built our own benchmarks to test what matters for real work: fidelity to complex prompts, safety, bias, and IP infringement.
We analyzed 18 models and found that no single model is good at everything. For example, GPT-4o has the best safety guardrails but also a 98% IP infringement rate on celebrity likenesses. Google's Imagen 4 Ultra actively counters bias (e.g., 90% of its "CEOs" are female) but struggles with generating crowds. X AI's Grok 2 blocks almost nothing.
Lots more detail in the post. We'll be here all day to answer questions.
- 4 points
- [Stealth GenAI startup] | NYC ONSITE | Founding Engineering Lead | Full-Time]
We're a stealth mode genAI startup working to advance the state-of-the-art in generative visual media. We've just closed our preseed round and are now backed by 3 expert VC funds and a collection of AI leader angels. Our team consists of highly experienced AI leaders from leading companies. And we're working with some of the biggest companies in media.
The role we're hiring for is an engineering leader to drive the evolution of our research platform into our first commercial-grade product. This work centers around the orchestration and scaling of multimodal understanding and image and video generation models. You'll be the primary architect of our platform capabilities and working closely with both cloud and model partners as well as enterprise customers deploying our technology.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding technical cohort of a deeply innovative team with a unique technology that no one else is building.
More about the role here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xMiTuj3VTgA96Yg3EzORsaDj...
- [Stealth GenAI startup] | NYC ONSITE | Founding Engineering Lead | Full-Time]
We're a stealth mode genAI startup working to advance the state-of-the-art in generative visual media. We've just closed our preseed round and are now backed by 3 expert VC funds and a collection of AI leader angels. Our team consists of highly experienced AI leaders from leading companies. And we're working with some of the biggest companies in media.
The role we're hiring for is an engineering leader to drive the evolution of our research platform into our first commercial-grade product. This work centers around the orchestration and scaling of multimodal understanding and image and video generation models. You'll be the primary architect of our platform capabilities and working closely with both cloud and model partners as well as enterprise customers deploying our technology.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding technical cohort of a deeply innovative team with a unique technology that no one else is building.
More about the role here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xMiTuj3VTgA96Yg3EzORsaDj...
- [Stealth GenAI startup] | NYC ONSITE | Founding Engineering Lead | Full-Time]
We're a stealth mode genAI startup working to advance the state-of-the-art in generative visual media. We've just closed our preseed round and are now backed by 3 expert VC funds and a collection of AI leader angels. Our team consists of highly experienced AI leaders from leading companies. And we're working with some of the biggest companies in media.
The role we're hiring for is an engineering leader to drive the evolution of our research platform into our first commercial-grade product. This work centers around the orchestration and scaling of vision and image generation models. You'll be the primary architect of our platform capabilities and working closely with both cloud and model partners as well as enterprise customers deploying our technology.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding technical cohort of a deeply innovative team with a unique technology that no one else is building.
More about the role here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xMiTuj3VTgA96Yg3EzORsaDj...
- I just tested this on NVIDIA's Sana codebase, and it did a pretty awesome job: https://gitsummarize.com/NVlabs/Sana
Impressive stuff!
- [Stealth GenAI startup] | NYC ONSITE | Founding Multimodal Researchers | Full-Time]
We're a stealth mode genAI startup working to advance the state-of-the-art in generative media. We've just closed our preseed round and are now backed by 3 expert VC funds and a collection of AI leader angels. Our team consists of highly experienced AI leaders from leading companies.
The roles we're hiring for are at the boundary of fundamental and applied research on multimodal reasoning and generative media. Ideal candidates will have previous research experience in the CV/image/video generation domain, ideally with publications and/or open source artifacts of this work.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding researcher cohort of a deeply innovative team with a unique technology that no one else is building.
More about me here: https://www.jeffsmith.tech/ Reach out directly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffksmithjr/ Or via email: jeffksmithjr@gmail.com
- [Stealth GenAI startup] | NYC ONSITE | Founding Multimodal Researchers | Full-Time]
We're a stealth mode genAI startup working to advance the state-of-the-art in generative media. We've just closed our preseed round and are now backed by 3 expert VC funds and a collection of AI leader angels. Our team consists of highly experienced AI leaders from leading companies.
The roles we're hiring for are at the boundary of fundamental and applied research on multimodal reasoning and generative media. Ideal candidates will have previous research experience in the CV/image/video generation domain, ideally with publications and/or open source artifacts of this work.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding researcher cohort of a deeply innovative team with a unique technology that no one else is building.
More about me here: https://www.jeffsmith.tech/ Reach out directly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffksmithjr/ Or via email: jeffksmithjr@gmail.com
- [Stealth GenAI startup] | NYC ONSITE | Founding Multimodal Researchers | Full-Time]
We're a stealth mode genAI startup working to advance the state-of-the-art in generative media. We've just closed our preseed round and are now backed by 3 expert VC funds and a collection of AI leader angels. Our team consists of highly experienced AI leaders from leading companies.
The roles we're hiring for are at the boundary of fundamental and applied research on multimodal reasoning and generative media. Ideal candidates will have previous research experience in the CV/image/video generation domain, ideally with publications and/or open source artifacts of this work.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding researcher cohort of a deeply innovative team with a unique technology that no one else is building.
More about me here: https://www.jeffsmith.tech/ Reach out directly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffksmithjr/ Or via email: jeffksmithjr@gmail.com
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