In a post on X, the 34-year-old French developer said he’s starting a new company with “a friend,” but he declined to reveal many de

AI pioneer François Chollet leaves Google

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2024-11-18 02:30:04

In a post on X, the 34-year-old French developer said he’s starting a new company with “a friend,” but he declined to reveal many details.

“I’m very grateful for my decade at Google,” Chollet wrote in the post. “In that timespan, deep learning went from a niche academic topic to a massive industry employing millions.”

Chollet is 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. A post on Google’s developer blog notes that Keras has over 2 million users and powers a number of high-profile tech products, like Waymo’s self-driving cars, as well as the recommendation engines on YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify.

In 2019, Chollet published the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI) benchmark, which measures the ability of AI systems to solve novel reasoning problems. This year, he launched the ARC Prize, a $1 million competition to beat ARC-AGI. (It remains unwon.)

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