The field of AI is undergoing huge changes frequently, which is dizzying! Recently, Alexis Conneau, the chief researcher of OpenAI, announced that he is leaving OpenAI to start his personal entrepreneurial journey. This move triggered a strong response in the AI circle. Conneau once led the development of GPT-4o, and his profound knowledge in the field of AI and unique insights into AGI have attracted much attention. The editor of Downcodes will give you an in-depth understanding of Conneau’s career and explore the possibility of his future entrepreneurial direction.
In the world of AI, changes always come faster than we think.
The latest news is that Alexis Conneau, the chief researcher of OpenAI and the soul behind GPT-4o, has bid farewell to his old employer and resolutely embarked on the journey of entrepreneurship.
He announced on the social platform: "After the wonderful journey of building #Her at @OpenAI, I decided to start a new company." As soon as this news came out, it undoubtedly caused quite a stir in the AI circle.
Conneau's resignation was not unfounded. His love and pursuit of AI have never stopped. When asked about the timetable for artificial general intelligence (AGI), he responded humorously: "I am more pursuing general emotional intelligence! (AGEI?)" This makes people full of expectations for his new company. What will it be? A "magic thing" is about to come out?
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in the spring update event, has already captured the hearts of many technology enthusiasts with its all-round performance in text, visual and audio fields. From real-time translation to coding assistant, from AI tutor to friendly partner, GPT-4o’s versatility has filled people with unlimited imagination about future AI applications.
Before joining OpenAI, Conneau was already well known for his close cooperation with Facebook AI Research (FAIR). He completed his PhD at FAIR Paris and works as a research scientist at Facebook AI. His research interests cover deep learning for natural language processing, text representation with neural networks, natural language understanding, sequence-to-sequence learning, neural machine translation, and low-level Cross-language understanding of resource languages and many other fields.
Conneau’s contribution to the field of natural language processing (NLP) cannot be underestimated. His research on unsupervised alignment of word and sentence representations in multiple languages has made important contributions to the development of unsupervised machine translation. His projects InferSent, MUSE, XNLI and XLM are all important milestones in the field of NLP.
His educational background is equally impressive, ranging from BA and MA in Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique in Paris, to MSc in Vision and Machine Learning at École Normale Supérieure in Cachan and École Normale Supérieure, to a PhD in Vision and Machine Learning at Université Le Mans in 2019 With a doctorate in artificial intelligence, Conneau’s academic career has been star-studded.
Earlier in his career, Conneau served as a machine learning research intern at Capital Fund Management and later completed a research internship on personalized retargeting at Criteo. These experiences undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for his future scientific research and entrepreneurship.
Now, as Conneau's new company is about to set sail, we have reason to believe that this explorer in the field of AI will bring us more surprises.
Conneau's entrepreneurial journey is highly anticipated. Let's wait and see how his new company will change the AI industry! The editor of Downcodes will continue to pay attention to his latest developments and bring you reports as soon as possible.