On November 19, local time, Yang Likun, Meta's chief AI scientist and deep learning champion, announced plans to leave his job at the end of the year and start a new AI startup. Yang Likun, Joshua Bengio, and Jeffrey Hinton are winners of the 2018 ACM Turing Award in recognition of their “conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that make deep neural networks a key component of computation”. The three of them are often collectively known as the “Fathers of Deep Learning.”

On November 19, local time, Yang Likun, Meta's chief AI scientist and deep learning champion, announced plans to leave his job at the end of the year and start a new AI startup. Yang Likun, Joshua Bengio, and Jeffrey Hinton are winners of the 2018 ACM Turing Award in recognition of their “conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that make deep neural networks a key component of computation”. The three of them are often collectively known as the “Fathers of Deep Learning.”