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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The head of Meta's artificial
intelligence research division said she plans to step down,
vacating a high-profile position at a time of intense
competition in the development of AI technology.
Joelle Pineau, Meta's vice president for AI research, said
Tuesday she is leaving at the end of May after eight years with
the company.
"Today, as the world undergoes significant change, as the race
for AI accelerates, and as Meta prepares for its next chapter,
it is time to create space for others to pursue the work," she
wrote in a social media post.
Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — didn't
immediately respond to an emailed request for comment about the
move. Pineau didn't announce a replacement.
Based in Montreal, where she is also a computer science
professor at McGill University, Pineau has been the face of
Meta's “open-source” approach to building AI systems, such as
its flagship large language model called Llama, in which core
components are publicly released for others to use or modify.
Her announcement comes ahead of the company's debut of a new
LlamaCon AI conference on April 29.
In 2023, she began directing Meta's AI research division,
formerly known as Facebook AI Research, which had been founded a
decade earlier by a group that included pioneering AI researcher
Yann LeCun. LeCun stepped down as the group's director in 2018
but remains Meta's chief AI scientist.
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