Former chief AI scientist, Meta Platforms; founder, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs
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Departed Meta; raised $1.03 billion for new AI startup
Meta Platforms has committed more money to artificial intelligence than any other company in history—up to $135 billion in 2026 alone, and $600 billion in American data center infrastructure by 2028. But money hasn't bought capability. The company's next-generation AI model, code-named Avocado, was delayed from March to at least May 2026 after internal tests showed it trailing systems already shipping from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on reasoning, coding, and writing tasks.
Updated 2 days ago
Leaving Meta to launch AMI Labs pursuing alternative AI architectures
OpenAI's GPT-5 dropped on August 7, 2025, completing AI's transformation from chatbots that string words together to systems that actually think through problems step-by-step. Google DeepMind's reasoning models won gold at the International Math Olympiad, solving problems only five human contestants cracked. Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, and every major AI lab sprinted to build models that pause, plan, and reason rather than just predict the next word.
Updated Jan 8
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