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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by qwertyi0k on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:01PM (#46814835)
To be fair, this was his job description: Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab. Not AI products division. You can't expect marketable products from a fundamental AI research lab.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by YetAnotherNick on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:58PM (#46815719)
It's "Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research", not fundamental. So basically involves both fundamental and applied research.

[1]: https://engineering.fb.com/category/ai-research/

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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by qwertyi0k on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:10PM (#46815890)
Ref: Yann lecun post on linkedin, 3years ago: FAIR now stand for "Fundamental AI Research"
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by YetAnotherNick on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:57AM (#46821018)
I literally linked the official site and it currently says Facebook. I have known FAIR for many years and I have always know it as Facebook. Can you link any official source of changing the name.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by stephenjayakar on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:10AM (#46826109)
I gotcha. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_big-changes-for-ai..., https://ai.meta.com/blog/fair-10-year-anniversary-open-scien...
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