Joel Pino, the core figure of artificial intelligence research at Meta Platforms and head of the basic AI research team, will officially leave his job in May 2025, ending his eight-year career with the company. This computer science professor at the University of Montreal joined Meta in 2017, during which time he led the development of a series of breakthrough technologies, including the Llama Big Language Model. A Meta spokesperson said the succession selection process has been initiated, stressing that “FAIR's open research philosophy will not change.”

Joel Pino, the core figure of artificial intelligence research at Meta Platforms and head of the basic AI research team, will officially leave his job in May 2025, ending his eight-year career with the company. This computer science professor at the University of Montreal joined Meta in 2017, during which time he led the development of a series of breakthrough technologies, including the Llama Big Language Model. A Meta spokesperson said the succession selection process has been initiated, stressing that “FAIR's open research philosophy will not change.”