Francois Chollet, a number one determine within the AI world, is leaving Google after near a decade.
In a submit on X, Chollet stated that he’s beginning a brand new firm with “a good friend” — however declined to disclose further particulars.
“I’m very grateful for my decade at Google,” he stated. “In that timespan, deep studying went from a distinct segment tutorial subject to an enormous trade using thousands and thousands.”
Chollet is probably greatest often known as the creator of Keras, a high-level, open-source API that can be utilized to create AI fashions and deal with machine studying duties. A submit on Google’s developer weblog notes that Keras has over two million customers, and powers a lot of high-profile tech merchandise, from Waymo’s self-driving automobiles to the advice engines on YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify.
In 2019, Chollet printed the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Synthetic Normal Intelligence (ARC-AGI) benchmark, which measures the power of AI methods to resolve novel reasoning issues. This 12 months, he launched the ARC Prize, a $1 million competitors to beat ARC-AGI. (It stays unwon.)
In 2021, Chollet gained the International Swiss AI Award for breakthroughs in AI. And in September, he was named by Time as one of many 100 most influential individuals in AI.
Chollet stated that Jeff Carpenter, a machine studying engineer at Google, will probably be taking up as staff lead for Keras.
“I’ve full confidence in Jeff and the extremely gifted Keras staff to proceed pushing the boundaries of what’s attainable in deep studying,” Chollet wrote in his submit. “I’ll keep deeply concerned with the Keras mission from the skin.”
