At a moment when the development of AI technology is very competitive, the director of Meta’s artificial intelligence research section announced her intention to leave her prominent role at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
After eight years with Meta, Joelle Pineau, vice president for AI research, announced on Tuesday that she will be departing at the end of May.
“Today, as the world undergoes significant change, as the race for AI accelerates, and as Meta prepares for its next chapter, it is time to create space for others to pursue the work,” she wrote in a social media post.
An email requesting comment on the relocation was not immediately answered by Meta. Pineau made no mention of a successor.
Pineau, who is based in Montreal and teaches computer science at McGill University, has been the face of Meta’s open-source strategy for creating AI systems. One example of this is its flagship big language model, Llama, whose essential components are made available for anybody to use or alter.
Her statement is made in advance of the company’s April 29 launch of a new LlamaCon AI conference.
She started leading Meta’s AI research department in 2023. Previously called Facebook AI Research, the division was established ten years prior by a team led by Yann LeCun, a trailblazing AI researcher.
LeCun is still Meta’s lead AI scientist, but he resigned as the group’s director in 2018.
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