To be fair, this was his job description: Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab. No...

YetAnotherNick · 2026-01-29T19:58:50 1769716730

It's "Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research", not fundamental. So basically involves both fundamental and applied research.

[1]: https://engineering.fb.com/category/ai-research/

qwertyi0k · 2026-01-29T20:10:58 1769717458

Ref: Yann lecun post on linkedin, 3years ago: FAIR now stand for "Fundamental AI Research"

YetAnotherNick · 2026-01-30T05:57:37 1769752657

I literally linked the official site and it currently says Facebook. I have known FAIR for many years and I have always know it as Facebook. Can you link any official source of changing the name.

stephenjayakar · 2026-01-30T16:10:12 1769789412

I gotcha. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_big-changes-for-ai..., https://ai.meta.com/blog/fair-10-year-anniversary-open-scien...