Gavin Baker, CIO at Atreides Management, explains why platform X has become a primary venue for real-time artificial intelligence debates and technical developments.
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“The JAX team at Google got into a giant fight with the PyTorch team on Meta on X, and the heads of each company's respective AI division had to make a public truce and instruct their troops to stop fighting.”
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