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Ref: Yann lecun post on linkedin, 3years ago: FAIR now stand for "Fundamental AI Research"
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.
Most serious researchers want to work on interesting problems like reinforcement learning or robotics or RNN or dozen other avant-garde subjects. None want to work on "boring" LLM technology, requiring significant engineering effort and huge dataset wrangling effort.