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On Sat, 20 Jun 2026 at 09:24, Venkatachalam Subramanian < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAJgp%3Ddt7AxKfMqKAOvCtWcFsrt%3DDHXx%2BA%2BVLbZzx7Leek0kq5A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAL5XZorgq-8fyYuKbDfcYqk_j9-xF2a%3DHHL7PB8r6KuP48cdhg%40mail.gmail.com.
