Same in deepmind too. Bit of a shuffle as well to the frontier AI group, jeff dean and prateek jain headed it now jeff is gone, so prateek has moved to MTV. And most of the different research groups are all in some sense under deepmind, moved to LLMs and in no-publication mode now.

I wouldn't interpret it as some sort of philosophical position. After a few years once the current buildout settles down they will go back to the usual setup. In the meantime, my alma mater is poaching some of the disgruntled publishing-oriented folks from there.

Right now it is stupid to not dedicate all organisational resources towards LLMs, when you are lighting your free cash flow on fire and issuing bonds like there's no tomorrow, you might as well have all your smart people working on it. JEPA can wait a few years.

Addendum: the amount of people in this thread misinterpreting what yann lecun said is insane.