Meta appoints former Google DeepMind director Robert Fergus as head of AI Research lab

Meta has appointed Robert Fergus, formerly a research director at Google DeepMind, to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab. Fergus, who co-founded FAIR in 2014, succeeds Joelle Pineau. The FAIR lab is responsible for creating advanced robotics models, generating audio, and pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities, including early AI models like Llama 1 and Llama 2.

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