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▶ 7:17 David Rosenthal Basically, every single person of note in AI worked at Google, with the one exception of Yann LeCun, who worked at Facebook.
▶ 32:03 David Rosenthal But Jeff and his former postdoc, a guy named Jan LeCun, started evangelizing within the community, hey, if we can find a way to have
▶ 46:22 David Rosenthal It's just in the YouTube feed, and then Facebook borrows it, and they hire Jan LeCun, and they start Facebook AI research, and then they bring it into Instagram, and then TikTok and ByteDance take it, and then it goes back to Facebook and…
▶ 53:58 David Rosenthal Yeah, yeah, because Jan LeCun and Fer would start in twenty-thirteen.
▶ 1:15:55 David Rosenthal He's gone out and recruited Jan LeCun, Jeff Hinton's old postdoc, who's together with Jeff, one of the sort of godfathers of AI and deep learning.
▶ 1:16:10 David Rosenthal And so with Jan, they have created FAIR, Facebook AI research, which is a Google brain rival within Facebook.
▶ 1:17:37 Ben Gilbert But Mark is so desperate at this point, he is open to these very large deal point negotiations such as Jan LeCun gets to stay in New York.
▶ 1:17:45 Ben Gilbert Jan LeCun gets to stay operating his lab at NYU.
▶ 1:17:47 Ben Gilbert Jan LeCun is a professor.

▶ 4:33:46 David Rosenthal So summer, 2013, Mark and Shrepp go out to recruit Jan LeCun and convince him to come start an AI research lab at Facebook.
▶ 4:33:55 David Rosenthal And Jan was then and is now one of the
▶ 4:34:03 David Rosenthal And Jan says like, well, I'm flattered that you would want me to come work here.
▶ 4:35:18 David Rosenthal So Jan is like, wow, well, okay, when you put it that way, sure.
▶ 4:38:23 Ben Gilbert Yes, and I think Mark and Schrepp had to make this point to Jan, and then when Jan joined, it kind of made the point to the rest of the industry that
▶ 6:19:38 Ben Gilbert Jan LeCun met as chief AI scientist.

▶ 19:26 Jensen Huang And that included Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng and Jeff Hinton, and that's how I met all these people, and, and I used to go to all the AI conferences, and that's where, you know, I met Ilya Suskeberg there for the first time.

▶ 15:47 David Rosenthal So about a year later, Google also acquires DeepMind, famously, and then right around the same time, Facebook scoops up computer science professor Jan LeCun, who also is a legend in the field, and the two of them basically establish a…
▶ 17:09 David Rosenthal And Facebook, of course, they probably had the last laugh in this generation because they're using all this work and Jan LeCun is doing his thing and hiring lots of researchers there.

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