Sergey Edunov
CTO of Genesis Molecular AI; formerly led development of Meta's Llama 2 and Llama 3 models
Sergey Edunov is CTO of Genesis Molecular AI. The company's team page says Edunov most recently served as Senior Director of AI Research in Meta's generative AI organization, where Edunov led development of the Llama large language models, including Llama 2 and Llama 3, and before that was a research leader on Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team overseeing large-scale machine translation work. Edunov is a co-author of the Llama 2 paper and of the 2019 paper on fairseq, an open-source sequence modeling toolkit from Facebook AI Research. Earlier, Edunov worked on distributed graph infrastructure for Apache Giraph.12463
Work
Llama 2 and Llama 3Open weights
Genesis's team page says Edunov led development of the Llama large language models at Meta, including Llama 2 and Llama 3; Edunov is listed as an author of the Llama 2 paper and of The Llama 3 Herd of Models.145
fairseq (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-first author, with Myle Ott, of the 2019 fairseq paper from Facebook AI Research; the repository is released under the MIT license.67
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