Maybe Microsoft, for being so close with OpenAI. Maybe Apple, who really needs a tech lead for AI. Maybe Google, his previous workplace, or work for Elon, who was successful in poaching Andrej in the past. Or a startup, he can raise billions if he so wishes. Wherever he goes in a year will compete with OpenAI. Previous time lead researchers had a philosophical disagreement with Sam they left and created Anthropic, which recently caught up to OpenAI. That's the risk of letting Ilya go. And where Ilya goes, other top researchers will go too.

Ilya cares about AI Safety and AGI. Meta's whole positioning is to dismiss it. No way he goes there.

Maybe the best to guarantee safety is to openly share the science. Lecun is also more 'academic style' than most competing labs

Perhaps that's exactly why he might go there: to change it for a reason (a new company path long term, or just upcoming potential regulations etc.)

I don't believe it either, but in case it happened, it might make some sense that way.

Not possible because they've got LeCun.

It depends on the anti-compete clauses in his contract.

I don't know how to word it, but a company that ignores all content rights enforcing a non compete seems ironic to me.

Aren’t those non enforceable now?

Might still be enforceable at this level.

Hypothetically: Could someone play for both the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors? Something tells me those non competes are unenforceable.

Isnt those just branches of the same company?

You can have contracts within a company.

Now I'm curious how the NBA is structured. I always thought the "ownership" was who paid the players and signed the contracts (in essence, an NBA team is a company), and the NBA simply enforced the rules of the contracts (the "templating", if you will), but I'm sure it's much more complex than that. I made the analogy because NBA players often move from team to team and there are no non-competes keeping them from playing for another team.

Maybe the NBA is a franchise and each team a franchisee?

Not really a thing in CA, largely unenforceable.

Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know it. What about NDAs?

I'm guessing his next move is not related to LLMs, maybe not even to the pursuit of AGI.