Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, explains how Meta's open-source strategy benefits the AI ecosystem, noting that competitor OpenAI built ChatGPT using PyTorch, an AI framework developed by Meta.
“ChatGPT was developed on PyTorch. Okay. All OpenAI runs on PyTorch. The entire world, in fact, runs on PyTorch, except Google, because they have their own thing, right?”
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