Recent turmoil at Meta: R-CNN author Ross Girshick has decided to leave and join AI2. There has been a wave of departures from the FAIR team, including the author of ResNeXt who has returned to academia. Meta is facing challenges in retaining AI talent, even though there have been advancements in open source. Yann LeCun, Meta's Chief Scientist, has expressed understanding regarding the departures, emphasizing that FAIR encourages scientists to publish papers. Girshick's departure from Meta FAIR may impact its...