PYMNTS.com April 1, 2025
Meta’s head of artificial intelligence research is moving on.
Joelle Pineau, who has been with the tech giant since 2017, announced her resignation on Facebook Tuesday (April 1).
“Today, as the world undergoes significant change, as the race for AI accelerates, and as Meta prepares for its next chapter, it is time to create space for others to pursue the work,” wrote Pineau, who heads Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). “I will be cheering from the sidelines, knowing that you have all the ingredients needed to build the best AI systems in the world, and to responsibly bring them into the lives of billions of people.”
FAIR’s work focuses on topics ranging from voice translation and image-recognition technology to the...