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AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs.
“We believe we have a small but real chance of achieving a breakthrough — creating AI that can learn at least as efficiently as people, and that can keep improving over time with no bottlenecks in sight.” Perhaps best known as the creator of Keras, a high-level, open source API that can be used to create AI models and tackle machine learning tasks, Chollet announced last November that he would depart Google after close to a decade there. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist and co-founder, last year founded Safe Superintelligence, an AI lab that has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
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