'Crazy rich Bayesians': Anthropic's nickname already joked at CVPR 2019, Fei-Fei Li lab alum says
mariyaivasileva · x · 2026-09-20
When someone quipped that Anthropic should be called "Crazy rich Bayesians," Mariya Ivasileva, an alum of Fei-Fei Li's Stanford lab, replied that it's "too late, done before" — the CVPR 2019 crowd remembers, attaching a photo from that era.
A light industry anecdote fusing Anthropic's Bayesian research lineage with the crazy-rich-money meme.
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