https://x.com/i/status/2063961759573254540 This Indian guy from Hyderabad got rejected by 27 universities. Then he built the tool that 90% of AI research runs on. 🤯
His name is Soumith Chintala. Grew up with no computer at home. Used his neighbour's. Went to VIT Vellore. Not IIT. Not IIM. Applied to grad schools in the US. Got rejected 27 times. Eventually made it to NYU where he started working under Yann LeCun one of the godfathers of deep learning. Joined Meta's AI research lab. Built something called PyTorch a framework that lets researchers build AI models the way they actually think. Clean. Simple. Pythonic. There was internal pushback. Google already had TensorFlow. Nobody thought Meta needed its own framework. He shipped it anyway. Today PyTorch powers almost every major AI breakthrough you've heard of. Tesla Autopilot. OpenAI's early models. Stability AI. 80-90% of all AI research papers use it. He led it for 8 years. Personally answered thousands of community questions. Rose to VP at Meta. Then donated PyTorch to the Linux Foundation so no single company could control it. DeepMind rejected him. Multiple times. His first job offer was a test engineer at Amazon. He just left Meta after 11 years and joined Mira Murati's new startup as CTO. >From a kid in Hyderabad with no computer to the guy who built the backbone of modern AI. 27 rejections. One framework. Changed everything. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAJgp%3Ddt7AxKfMqKAOvCtWcFsrt%3DDHXx%2BA%2BVLbZzx7Leek0kq5A%40mail.gmail.com.
