In the world of AI, change always comes faster than we imagine.
Latest news: Alexis Conneau, the chief researcher at OpenAI and the key figure behind GPT-4o, has left his former employer and embarked on a journey of entrepreneurship.
He announced on social media: "After the wonderful journey of building #Her at @OpenAI, I have decided to start a new company." This news has undoubtedly caused quite a stir in the AI community.
Conneau's departure is not without reason; his passion and pursuit for AI have never ceased. When asked about the timeline for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), he humorously responded: "I'm more focused on general emotional intelligence! (AGEI?)" This leaves us eager to see what kind of "magical thing" his new company will bring to light.
OpenAI's GPT-4o, released during their spring update event, has already captured the hearts of many tech enthusiasts with its all-round performance in text, visual, and audio fields. From real-time translation to coding assistance, from AI tutoring to friendly companionship, GPT-4o's versatility has sparked endless imagination about future AI applications.
Before joining OpenAI, Conneau's close collaboration with Facebook AI Research (FAIR) was already well-known. He completed his Ph.D. at FAIR Paris and worked as a research scientist at Facebook AI, with research interests spanning deep learning for natural language processing, text representation in neural networks, natural language understanding, sequence-to-sequence learning, neural machine translation, and cross-lingual understanding for low-resource languages.
Conneau's contributions in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) are significant. His research on unsupervised alignment of word and sentence representations in multiple languages has made important contributions to the development of unsupervised machine translation. His projects, including InferSent, MUSE, XNLI, and XLM, are significant milestones in the field of NLP.
His educational background is equally impressive, from a bachelor's and master's degree in applied mathematics from École Polytechnique, to master's degrees in vision and machine learning from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and École Normale Supérieure, to a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Le Mans University in 2019. Conneau's academic journey has been nothing short of stellar.
In the early stages of his career, Conneau worked as a machine learning research intern at Capital Fund Management and completed a research internship on personalized retargeting at Criteo. These experiences undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for his future research and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Now, as Conneau's new company sets sail, we have reason to believe that this explorer in the field of AI will bring us even more surprises.