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Francois Chollet is leaving Google

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377 points xnx | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 22:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tadeegan ◴[13 Nov 24 23:18 UTC] No.42131302[source]▶
I guess they realized muilti-backend keras is futile? I never liked the tf.keras apis and the docs always promosed multi backend but then I guess they were never able to deliver that without breaking keras 3 changes. And even now.... "Keras 3 includes a brand new distribution API, the keras.distribution namespace, currently implemented for the JAX backend (coming soon to the TensorFlow and PyTorch backends)". I don't believe it. They are too different to reconcile under 1 api. And even if you could, I dont really see the benefit. Torch and Flax have similar goals to Keras and are imo better.
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modeless ◴[13 Nov 24 23:52 UTC] No.42131553[source]▶
Why would you interpret this as Google disliking Keras? Seems a lot more likely he was poached by Anthropic.
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1. blackeyeblitzar ◴[14 Nov 24 01:23 UTC] No.42132173[source]▶
Where did you see that he was poached by Anthropic?
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2. modeless ◴[14 Nov 24 02:13 UTC] No.42132463[source]▶
I am not suggesting that I know it for a fact. I do recall some speculation on X to that effect but I can't find it now. Maybe just because Anthropic has been getting a lot of people lately.
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3. modeless ◴[14 Nov 24 16:57 UTC] No.42138174[source]▶
Mystery solved: he's founding a startup: https://x.com/fchollet/status/1857012265024696494