François Chollet

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Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

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1Oct 30, '25Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end72.3×7.6M133k8.1k14k
2Dec 20, '24Today OpenAI announced o3, its next-gen reasoning model. We've worked with OpenAI to test it on ARC-AGI, and we believe it represents a significant breakthrough in getting AI to ad21.3×2.2M8.5k1.5k3.1k
3Aug 25, '25NVIDA chips are manufactured by TSMC, a Taiwanese company. They're created using EUV lithography machines manufactured by ASML, a Dutch company. These machines consist of >50% o20.8×2.2M33k2.1k5.7k
4Dec 15, '23Unfortunately , too few people understand the distinction between memorization and understanding. It's not some lofty question like "does the system have an internal world model?",19.4×2M3.7k4671.9k
5May 16, '23It's been mask-off for EM since early 2022 (with many warning signs since 2017) -- so not exactly new, but still pretty sad. Imagine being able to do absolutely anythingv you want 17.2×1.8M2.8k23352
6Apr 14, '23Really striking how every AI hype tweet is explicitly trying to induce FOMO. "You're getting left behind. All your competitors are using this. Everyone else is making more money th15×1.6M4.8k585224
7Jul 18, '25Today we're releasing a developer preview of our next-gen benchmark, ARC-AGI-3. The goal of this preview, leading up to the full version launch in early 2026, is to collaborate wit12.8×1.3M2.6k456285
8Nov 28, '23Big news: we just released Keras 3.0! ▶ Run Keras on top of JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch ▶ Train faster with XLA compilation ▶ Unlock training runs with any number of devices &12.5×1.3M3k637552
9Jun 24, '23Search interest over time, ChatGPT (blue) vs Minecraft (red). There's an obvious factor that might well underlie both trends (down for ChatGPT, up for Minecraft). Can you guess wha12.2×1.3M2.4k478631
10Sep 9, '25A student who truly understands F=ma can solve more novel problems than a Transformer that has memorized every physics textbook ever written.11.1×1.2M3.7k294783
11Mar 21, '18The problem with Facebook is not *just* the loss of your privacy and the fact that it can be used as a totalitarian panopticon. The more worrying issue, in my opinion, is its use o10.4×014k7.4k936
12Nov 4, '21View post on X10.4×028k3.8k345
13Jun 19, '23Here's an interesting anecdote on that topic. In 1979, a group of people who were "just asking questions" offered a $50,000 reward ($220,000 in 2023 dollars) to anyone who could pr10.3×1.1M2.6k429294
14Sep 18, '25The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning. This ti9.7×1M6.4k1k3.8k
15Jan 21, '23What people don't realize is that this is the default state of housing in a market economy, and it's great for consumers. Turning aging homes into an investment vehicle by artifici9.7×1M6.3k703616
16Jul 11, '23We're launching Keras Core, a new library that brings the Keras API to JAX and PyTorch in addition to TensorFlow. It enables you to write cross-framework deep learning components a9.2×968k3.8k760498
17Dec 20, '24One very important thing to understand about the future: the economics of AI are about to change completely. We'll soon be in a world where you can turn test-time compute into comp9.2×964k4.1k3921.5k
18Jul 25, '23GitHub Copilot and LLM chatbots are causing a big drop in StackOverflow traffic. What's fascinating about it is that these systems work largely thanks to the user-generated content9.1×957k4.3k600482
19Aug 21, '25LLM adoption among US workers is closing in on 50%. Meanwhile labor productivity growth is lower than in 2020. Many counter-arguments can be made here, e.g. "they don't know yet ho8.9×928k4.5k5451.4k
20Dec 20, '24TikTok just open-sourced their recommender system framework (Monolith) -- and it uses Keras This means that nearly all the major recommender systems in the industry are built on Ke8.8×921k10k8316.1k
21Aug 7, '25Grok 4 is still state-of-the-art on ARC-AGI-2 among frontier models. 15.9% for Grok 4 vs 9.9% for GPT-5.8.3×869k2.5k377211
22Aug 6, '23YYYY-MM-DD is obviously the best date format: it's the one where alphanumerical order matches chronological order.8.2×854k8.3k507189
23May 4I wrote Deep Learning with Python to be the definitive guide to how deep learning works and how to best make use of it. Tens of thousands of people got their career start via this 8.0×835k4.1k6403.8k
24Nov 6, '23Turns out, fitting a curve to a dataset produces a model that only generalizes to that specific data distribution -- big if true.7.8×813k3.7k377665
25Oct 3, '23My interpretation of prompt engineering is this: 1. A LLM is a repository of many (millions) of vector programs mined from human-generated data, learned implicitly as a by-product 6.8×711k2.9k5051.9k
26Oct 21, '24People have been rewriting history and saying that "everyone has always believed that LLMs alone wouldn't be AGI and that extensive scaffolding around them would be necessary". No,6.6×695k2.7k285544
27Aug 13, '25GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool;6.5×681k6.4k9422.2k
28Jun 2, '23To be clear, at this time and for the foreseeable future, there does not exist any AI model or technique that could represent an extinction risk for humanity. Not even in nascent f6.1×636k2.7k536182
29Jan 1, '24We need a "where are they now" series about the developers who claimed in February-March 2023 that they had become "100x" more productive thanks to LLMs. Surely by now they must ha6.0×626k3.7k404355
30Sep 29, '24We haven't needed programmers since the advent of automated programming in the 1970s. Once you have a high level language like COBOL and a compiler to automatically turn it into ac5.9×616k5.6k433635
31Jun 11, '24I'm partnering with @mikeknoop to launch ARC Prize: a $1,000,000 competition to create an AI that can adapt to novelty and solve simple reasoning problems. Let's get back on track 5.8×603k2.5k5131k
32Dec 21, '22Twitter is great because it gives you unfiltered visibility into the thoughts and decision-making process of some of the most successful people in the world. This has completely cu5.2×548k6k736218
33Mar 12, '24If you could fully automate software engineering (my job), I think that would be great, since I could then move on to higher-leverage things. Making software is a means to an end, 5.1×539k2.7k284983
34Jul 10, '25In my personal experience with Duolingo, I found that it isn't an education app, it's a mobile game -- it's completely ineffective at teaching languages but it's quite entertaining4.9×510k5.9k220903
35Sep 30, '23The main downside of working in AI is having to constantly fight off assassination attempts from random time travelers4.5×471k3.6k451130
36Jan 1, '25I believe that if you understood intelligence, you could build it in software form on a $1M budget, including training. It would not need to be trained on the entire Internet, nor 4.5×471k3.6k232853
37Jan 24, '23Been working with Python for 13 years and I still occasionally end up with a hopelessly borked environment where I have to actually nuke and reinstall the Python interpreter. And y4.4×460k2.5k95169
38Mar 2, '25Twitter used to be my favorite place on the Internet. I've derived enormous value from it in the past 16 years. Not true anymore. Most of the people I enjoyed reading have left. My4.4×457k6.8k394563
39Sep 15, '25To solve any problem, you don't have to be super smart. You just have to 1) be able to break down problems into subproblems, 2) be slightly smarter than the hardest of the atomic s4.2×439k5.4k4881.6k
40Sep 4, '24Computing used to feel fast -- everything ran locally, software was mostly in C/C++ and was kept in check by the need to run on all kinds of old hardware. Now any one of my Chrome 4.1×428k6.5k368569
41Nov 14, '24Some personal news -- I'm leaving Google to go start a new company with a friend. More to be announced soon! I will stay deeply involved with the Keras project from the outside -- 4.0×417k4.8k244589
42Jan 5, '25I kinda miss when "AI Twitter" was folks doing AI research or app development, posting under their own identities. Slightly more intellectual depth than anime avatars whose main AI4.0×416k4.1k206297
43Sep 28, '25The idea that we will automate work by building artificial versions of ourselves to do exactly the things we were previously doing, rather than redesigning our old workflows to mak4.0×414k5.6k547889
44May 10, '24One thing that even relatively senior ML people often fail to grasp is that deep learning models are curves fitted to a data distribution. You cannot expect them to solve tasks out3.9×412k2.7k4111.1k
45Mar 21, '23Asking if it's still worth learning to code in the age of AI is like asking if it's still worth learning to write in the age of the printing press. It's even more valuable than bef3.9×406k3.2k533311
46Oct 4, '24Not too many people realize this, but my actual job is just writing (and reviewing) a lot of code. I've shipped about 45k lines of code per year on average since 2015. Writing code3.8×399k4.2k144578
47Dec 22, '24The most reliably predictable trend of the next 100 years: every year, humanity will use significantly more computing power than the previous year. Someone should start an ETF base3.8×395k2.6k1911.2k
48Oct 12, '24LLMs are trained on much more than the whole Internet -- they also consume handcrafted answers produced by armies of highly qualified data annotators (often domain experts). Today 3.6×376k2.6k292822
49May 3, '21Within 10-20 years, nearly every branch of science will be, for all intents and purposes, a branch of computer science. Computational physics, comp chemistry, comp biology, comp me3.5×06.5k1.1k954
50Apr 12, '25Google has never been good at marketing its products, but boy is it good at technology. Very bullish on Gemini, the Gemma line of open models, and the JAX/Keras/TPU stack3.3×342k3.1k161431
51Sep 17, '25Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon r3.2×333k8.1k909740
52Oct 25, '21Announcement: my book Deep Learning with Python (2nd edition) has been released. 500 pages of code examples, theory, context, practical tips... If you want to really understand how2.9×05.2k8461.4k
53Sep 7, '24In science and engineering, I feel like having a sense of aesthetics is dramatically more useful than being marginally more intelligent2.7×279k4k324660
55Nov 6, '19I've just released a fairly lengthy paper on defining & measuring intelligence, as well as a new AI evaluation dataset, the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus". I've been workin2.6×04.5k1.3k748
56Nov 3, '25Programming isn't like playing an instrument or speaking a language: whether you started coding at 5 or 20 makes no difference to your skill at 30. Programming is about clarity of 2.5×264k5.9k4231.3k
57Nov 5, '23You never really learn git, you just get used to it.2.4×256k2.8k19396
58Jan 27, '21People who say $GME is overvalued don't understand the value proposition. It's no longer a stock, it's a store of value. It's the new digital gold. And for now it has only 3% of th2.4×06.1k607138
59Jul 19, '24Imagine writing a bit of code at your dull software engineer job job and messing up so bad the president has to be briefed about it2.4×253k2.8k205142
60Apr 25, '18🌉 SF bay area: area: 18,040 km2 population: 7.8M density: 425.7/km2 1BR rent: $3.3k 🗼 Tokyo bay area: area: 14,034 km2 (22% less) population: 37.8M (385% more (4.85x)) density: 22.4×04.9k1.4k98
61Oct 30, '25The bottleneck for deep skill isn't usually intelligence, but boredom tolerance. Learning has an activation energy: below a certain skill threshold, practice is tedious, but above 2.3×236k6.5k8232.3k
62Feb 1, '22Software is this weird space where you can spend basically nothing and create a billion dollars of value, or spend a billion dollars and create basically no value.2.2×05.7k782202
64Mar 11, '19Are you a deep learning researcher? Wondering if all this TensorFlow 2.0 stuff you heard about is relevant to you? This thread is a crash course on everything you need to know to u2.0×03.1k1.1k752
65Jul 16, '20"TensorFlow, Keras and Deep Learning (without a PhD)" by @martin_gorner is a clear, approachable, fun introduction to neural networks. Highly recommended!2.0×03.4k8011k
66Sep 13, '25The most important skill for a researcher is not technical ability. It's taste. The ability to identify interesting and tractable problems, and recognize important ideas when they 2.0×211k3.7k500981
67Oct 5, '19I just wrote an extensive TensorFlow 2.0 + Keras overview, targeted at deep learning researchers: Hope you will find it useful! Let me know if you have any feedback.2.0×03.5k961733
68Aug 27, '25Saying that deep learning is "just a bunch of matrix multiplications" is about as informative as saying that computers are "just a bunch of transistors" or that a library is "just 2.0×208k2.9k227602
69Sep 24, '22Human intelligence is a poor metaphor for what "AI" is doing. AI displays essentially none of the properties of human cognition, and in reverse, most of the useful properties of mo1.9×04k700490
70Jul 5, '24The main benefit of having extensive programming experience isn't the ability to write software (which is a bit of a commodity -- you could hire someone to do it), it's how it chan1.9×196k2.4k273428
71May 29, '25The secret to life satisfaction is agency maxxing1.8×193k2.5k229652
72Dec 8, '22Python is usually an elegant language. But `if __name__ == "__main__"` is one exception.1.8×05.4k269143
73Nov 24, '24The real problem with EU cookie banners is that they're still around after several years of achieving nothing but being an annoyance. Mistakes happen. The key is to identify them a1.8×192k2.5k20591
74Jul 19, '25Intelligence isn't a collection of skills. It's the efficiency with which you acquire and deploy new skills. It's an efficiency ratio. And that's why benchmark scores can be very m1.8×190k2.6k287575
75Jul 23, '22I've been asked about this a lot, so let me provide a quick FAQ. Q: What's the nature of the issue? A: Anyone who has bought my book from Amazon in the past few month hasn't bought1.8×02.7k1k312
76Jul 21, '24An underappreciated aspect of productivity: momentum. The more stuff you do the easier it becomes to do stuff (literally anything). And inversely.1.8×190k2.9k301672
77Apr 28, '23The most powerful debugging tool: walking away from your computer.1.8×187k2.5k33169
78Jun 5, '19You don't need to know everything. You don't really need a formal background in this or that -- though it helps. You don't even need a PhD. You do, however, need to be constantly l1.7×03.3k1k127
79Oct 28, '25To really understand a concept, you have to "invent" it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an ac1.6×165k3.8k5321.1k
80Jan 7, '20Our field isn't quite "artificial intelligence" -- it's "cognitive automation": the encoding and operationalization of human-generated abstractions / behaviors / skills. The "intel1.6×02.9k786326
81Apr 6, '19Learning: 1) Make something. It sucks. 2) Realize it sucks. 3) Actually care about it. 4) Find ways to improve. 5) Try again; repeat forever. A lot of people get stuck at either 2)1.5×03.1k902157
82Oct 30, '22Software companies aren't made of code. They're made of processes that produce and maintain code. And the foremost component of these processes are people. The code is just a by-pr1.5×03.4k534333
84Aug 26, '22Deep learning takes data points and turns them into a query-able structure that enables retrieval and interpolation between the points. You could think of it as a continuous genera1.5×02.6k415715
85Jan 12, '18"Neural networks" are a sad misnomer. They're neither neural nor even networks. They're chains of differentiable, parameterized geometric functions, trained with gradient descent (1.4×02.7k98413
87May 1, '21My wife and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our son Sylvain, earlier this week. Sylvain and his mom are both doing great. Feeling so blessed :)1.3×04k4511
88Sep 7, '22I'll tell you a secret about having more impact. You've got to focus on fewer things, ideally just one -- your most ambitious idea. And you've got to commit and finish it.1.3×02.6k372461
90Oct 28, '25You rarely solve hard problems in a flash of insight. It's more typically a slow, careful process of exploring a branching tree of possibilities. You must pause, backtrack, and wei1.2×127k2.8k3071k
91Nov 23, '22Many people in tech have so little exposure to philosophy (or the humanities in general) that when they get exposed to old ideas like Plato's cavern or the simulation hypothesis, t1.2×02.7k307217
92May 7, '24My wife and I are overjoyed to announce the birth of our daughter Diane, a few days ago. Welcome to the world, little Diane! We're feeling so blessed to have you and your big broth1.2×126k3.2k2633
93Apr 25, '21I'd guess I'd summarize it as, being a "deep learning expert" in 2021 is like being a "medicine expert" in 1800. You know a lot less than you think, and most of what you think you 1.1×02.8k398124
94Nov 29, '20Deep learning isn't a science, but rather an ever-changing set of empirically-derived engineering best practices, woven together by over-claiming, unreliable narratives.1.1×02.6k353154
95Feb 24, '20"No code" is just the beginning. I'm looking forward to no software, no computer, just living in the woods1.1×02.7k38441
96Jun 14, '22Mass deployment of self-driving cars was less than 5 years away in 2016. Then in 2021 it was 2-3 years away. In 2024 it will be 1 year away. Zeno's AI milestone.1.1×03.1k15838
97May 16, '21Wait, what1.0×02.8k30839
98May 21, '21I would rather press [▲] 50 times than actually type a command in the terminal0.9×02.5k20828

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