Scholar Slams AI Giants for Neglecting Academia, LeCun Amplifies

DeepMind research director Nando de Freitas, amplified by LeCun, criticized major AI firms for restricting researchers despite owing their success to academia, which incubated technologies like flow matching, LLMs, and GANs, while neglecting AI education in Africa and Latin America.

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