Mike Schroepfer

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founder @Gigascale, Sr Fellow/fmr CTO @Meta, founder @AdditionalVent. Let’s go build!

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1	Oct 4, '21	Sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug	1955×	0	45k	10k	291
2	May 20, '22	Nobody can predict what is going to happen over the next 12 months but we haven't had a real bad tech downturn since 2000 (2008 terrible for lots of other folks but nbd for tech) l	389×	0	8.4k	1.5k	2.5k
3	May 5, '23	It’s hard to think of a competitive moat bigger than @SpaceX	284×	974k	1.5k	106	40
4	Oct 4, '21	Facebook services coming back online now - may take some time to get to 100%. To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry.	219×	0	6k	1k	65
5	Apr 30, '21	Here’s our new computer vision system achieving state of the art results in image segmentation, without needing any labeled training data. This new model was trained on random, unl	202×	0	5.5k	928	621
6	May 21, '21	Our new AI system learned speech recognition in English with zero speech to text training data: researchers just gave it lots of audio, and it figured out what the words were. Bu	127×	0	3.1k	681	381
7	May 6, '22	Only in Silicon Valley: conversation at lunch veers into programming handles and memory management in 1990s era MacOS - person at next table leans over and says “I wrote the memory	120×	0	4.6k	214	132
8	Nov 15, '22	Basic internet math for @elonmusk's claim load time in India is 20s because of 1200 RPC calls (v.s. 2s in US): Bangalore->SF is ~250ms 1200 *.25s = 5 minutes! Way off!! 20s load	119×	0	3.9k	273	181
9	Sep 29, '22	Maybe my favorite AI generated video so far. Prompt: "A fluffy baby sloth with an orange knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop, close up, highly detailed, studio lighting, scre	95.6×	0	2.8k	314	312
10	Jun 2, '22	I sat between Sheryl and Mark for over 13 years and worked closely with her through all the highs and lows at Facebook/Meta, so let me share a few of the important bits that people	67.4×	0	1.6k	134	493
11	Apr 21, '24	True Story! One of the many reasons I love open source is it doesn't give a damn about the org chart or "managing up." If people outside of FB/Meta didn't use or like our OSS then	62.1×	213k	531	55	109
12	Nov 20, '23	I was an exec at @mozilla when @Google decided that the browser was too critical to be run by a nonprofit they don’t control. Sounds a lot like @Microsoft and @OpenAI today. This i	58.7×	201k	978	105	123
13	Oct 5, '21	More info on the outage today:	53.4×	0	1.1k	318	83
14	Oct 5, '21	Yesterday’s outage across our products was a bad one, so we’re sharing some more detail here on exactly what happened, how it happened, and what we’re learning from it:	52.7×	0	1.1k	393	92
15	May 20, '22	I have no idea if now is going to be the same, better, or worse than the 2000s crash. But bad times can last multiple years and if you can make decisions now that extend your runwa	50.5×	0	1.8k	105	51
16	Oct 29, '21	1/n Some really mind blowing technological advancements got lost in the excitement over the Meta name change yesterday. Let's start with lifelike avatars - this is an animated avat	44.5×	0	959	189	213
17	May 20, '22	Until you’ve been a founder or small business owner it is hard to describe the awful pit-in-the-stomach feeling of “if this doesn’t come through, I can’t make payroll.”	42.8×	0	1.5k	125	34
18	Feb 24, '23	2 important details: a) Shows that smaller models trained with more data can outperform larger models (e.g. 13B outperforms GPT-3 175B) 2) The "larger" 65B model is competitive wit	41×	141k	245	47	58
19	Sep 22, '21	1/ After 13 years at FB, I’ve decided to step down as CTO and pass the baton to @boztank at some point in 2022. I will stay on as long as it takes to ensure a successful leadership	39×	0	1.2k	104	70
20	Jun 11, '21	Our researchers built an AI model that can learn to edit the text in any image by training on just a single word. This has huge potential in augmented reality — imagine your AR gla	38.9×	0	1.1k	194	96
21	Apr 30, '21	Oh - and here's the best part - all yours to use. Code and pre-trained model is right here:	37×	0	910	123	230
22	May 4, '22	Behind the scenes on what it takes to train a state of the art language model - 100 pages of raw notes released with the 175B parameter large language model OPT-175. There's a lot	33×	0	781	109	215
23	May 20, '22	We bought one cisco switch from Webvan - who also happen to have been funded by Sequoia Capital. I made a joke to our new funders that they bought this switch twice. Was funnier in	32.1×	0	1.3k	41	8
24	May 20, '22	Let me first set the stage. Early 2000 was bonkers. 2 MBAs, good slide deck, a good domain name equaled 10s of millions of dollars of VC funding. We charged those startups absurd h	30.5×	0	1.1k	56	40
25	Feb 1, '22	Personal thing NOT at all related to my work at Meta. I'm excited to launch a $10M+ funding opportunity to fully research if Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement can be a safe and effectiv	28.9×	0	888	75	75
26	Nov 16, '21	Being able to use your hands in VR with no controllers has been a huge step forward. Now our researchers are exploring the next frontier: creating a realistic sense of touch in the	28.2×	0	776	134	49
27	Oct 7, '21	Our connectivity researchers are working on ways to slash the amount of time and money it takes to roll out high-speed broadband. They developed a robot that crawls along power lin	26.6×	0	792	104	47
28	Feb 15, '23	This doc on the history of React reminded me of one of the big lessons I’ve learned as a technical leader. It was 2012 & FB stock had crashed to almost half its IPO price. We d	24.3×	83k	323	54	98
29	May 25, '21	All in on computer vision - removing radar from the cars. Wow!	24×	0	659	100	52
30	May 2, '23	Big day! I’m teaming up with @VictoriaBeas + @EvalineTsai to launch @Gigascale Capital, a new kind of climate tech VC firm dedicated to investing in companies solving the climate c	23.3×	80k	423	36	32
31	Jun 4, '24	Hey @nytimes please get it straight! "Electric cars, sales of which have slowed in recent months" Later in the same article "The recent slowdown in the growth of electric car sales	22.8×	78k	216	11	11
32	May 20, '22	Then suddenly there was zero traffic on US101. Everyone knew someone who’s company shut down. We heard crazy stories like companies lost their HR teams first and couldn’t figure ou	22.4×	0	885	36	9
33	Dec 2, '21	First @Stanford class taught fully in VR on Oculus Quest! So cool!	22.3×	0	583	137	35
34	Nov 10, '21	This is an exciting moment on the path of building a universal translator. For the first time a AI model capable of translating between multiple languages has beaten special purpos	21.5×	0	610	100	62
35	Apr 7, '22	I’ve officially transitioned from Meta CTO->Senior Fellow—a part-time role focused on supporting strategic tech initiatives. I’ll be particularly focused on AI, which is the eng	20.4×	0	789	15	24
36	Apr 30, '24	Having just ridden a @Waymo in SF and a current model Y Uber in DC a few things are obvious: 1) self driving with lidar/expensive sensors is better than a human driver. Smoother ri	20.2×	69k	178	18	27
37	Nov 15, '22	@elonmusk That makes sense. I'm going to guess that the work client side is going to be more impactful and a lot harder than the work server side.	19.8×	0	775	22	11
38	Sep 30, '22	prompt: "A robot heroically walking in the rain, at night, in urban city, cinematic, 4k, sharp focus, emitting diodes, smoke, artillery, sparks, racks, system unit, matte painting,	19.5×	0	365	36	40
39	Mar 15, '24	. @SpaceX is giving the world a masterclass in learning by doing. Our last attempt blew up - this one tried to land but didn't - ... but that is AWESOME because WE ARE LEARNING. If	19.5×	67k	665	53	39
40	Aug 31, '20	Today we launched Opacus, a high-speed library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy (DP), providing an easier path for researchers and engineers to adopt different	18.6×	0	466	98	77
41	May 20, '22	Then the spreadsheets came. Full of assets from bankrupt companies their creditors wanted to sell us. Normal stuff like aeron chairs, Sun servers, and cisco switches. Also, weird s	18.1×	0	715	30	10
42	May 20, '22	People really got hurt. tax bills on now worthless stock, margin calls, all of it. Terrible	18×	0	717	35	9
43	Oct 28, '21	View post on X	16.9×	0	466	90	25
44	May 20, '22	But we raised money somehow in Q4 of 2000 from @sequoia. Raising money then was weird – like zombie apocalypse weird – VC offices are full of glass conference rooms, and we were of	16.8×	0	659	32	9
45	May 20, '22	I remember going to a company office next to the Oracle Campus in Redwood shores like some sort of sketchy repo man to pick up some gear we bought while about to be laid off employ	15×	0	602	24	6
46	Dec 1, '23	Big milestone - 10 years since we founded FAIR - everything from PyTorch to Segment Anything to LLama created here and available for all to use!	14×	48k	105	26	7
47	May 20, '22	We didn’t have a stocked micro kitchen or other costly perks. We had a product, customers and were off and building. Managed to raise a big series B about 18 months later. Then did	13.7×	0	556	21	8
48	Dec 25, '21	Exciting times for VR!	13.4×	0	473	41	11
49	Apr 30, '21	But it gets even more interesting. The model learned to categorize objects in images and organize them into groups based on physical properties — animal species were clearly separa	12.9×	0	461	35	14
50	May 20, '22	But between Mid 2000 to Mid 2002 things didn’t seem like they had gotten better in the tech economy, and we wanted to make sure we had the runway to operate for as long as we could	12.8×	0	524	19	3
51	May 3, '22	Heard of advances in AI called Large Language models - e.g. GPT-2/3? Up till now only researchers at a handful of large companies could actually see what was behind the curtain. No	12.2×	0	296	54	62
52	Nov 15, '22	@elonmusk Although in my experience you wont really know how many of those 1200 are critical until you try turning them off	11.6×	0	442	16	3
53	Dec 8, '21	Unfortunately I know what “much of the internet is down and it’s our fault” feels like - sending good vibes to the folks over at Amazon/AWS today - never fun.	11.6×	0	475	12	5
54	Sep 12, '22	A big moment for a key piece of open infrastructure powering the AI revolution. Introducing the #PyTorchFoundation!	11.2×	0	295	57	26
55	Jun 2, '22	Nobody I’ve ever met in 25 years works harder. Every car ride or workout is a time Sheryl is getting stuff done. She never lets any task drop - once she signs up to do something yo	11.1×	0	385	11	39
56	Nov 1, '22	Yet another example of stunning advances: our researchers built an AI model that predicts protein structures 60X faster than existing state of the art - it took two weeks for it to	11×	0	317	41	40
57	Nov 2, '24	There is going to be reckoning as all the SaaS companies realize they can't each charge an extra $19/month/user for "AI"	10.8×	37k	188	18	20
58	Oct 19, '20	1/n M2M-100 can translate between any one of 100 lanagues to any other of 100 languages without going to English in between: via @engadget	10.7×	0	253	68	28
59	Oct 27, '20	The PyTorch community announced the availability of PyTorch 1.7 today. Glitzy demos often get the press, but it’s the continuous improvement of core tools that powers real advancem	10.4×	0	337	48	16
60	Feb 15, '23	This is what technical leaders need to do. You can't just encourage people to think long term, you need to transfer the risks of long term work — or perceived risks — from them to	10.1×	35k	258	25	22
61	Jun 4, '21	Facebook AI has a focus on building translation systems that will serve the entire world. Today we are releasing a first of its many-to-many evaluation data set covering 101 langua	9.8×	0	244	59	30
62	Nov 2, '21	If I told you 10 years ago Facebook AI authors would be on 79 of the accepted papers at the premier Machine Learning conference you probably would have laughed. Crazy!	9.6×	0	299	24	32
63	Jun 2, '22	She has always been there for me as a friend. What’s likely most surprising critics is that she’s always asking in those private moments how she can be better or do more for others	9.5×	0	376	1	10
64	Jun 22, '21	There aren’t many things in life that have gotten 25 times better since 2016, but that’s what Facebook’s carbon footprint has done. A stunning improvement in just a few years:	9.3×	0	220	29	6
65	May 21, '21	Our researchers have it trained in Swahili, Tatar and Kyrgyz, and see no reason why the approach wouldn’t work in 1000s more languages. They wrote about the system here — and relea	9.2×	0	215	50	39
66	Jun 2, '22	First and most important, she is always trying to help other people grow. She’s the one who has the hard conversation that someone needs, at the moment they need it, when nobody	9.2×	0	352	10	15
67	May 12, '22	Openness in action. We released the largest ever open language model, within a week @huggingface has it up and available for anyone to use! Nice work @MetaAI and @huggingface !	9.1×	0	277	40	22
68	Apr 30, '21	What’s happening here is one of the defining AI advances of recent years — self-supervised learning — enabling new systems to develop much deeper and more generalized understanding	9.0×	0	325	26	5
69	Nov 15, '22	Incredible application of AI: summarize academic literature, generate wiki articles!!	8.6×	0	210	31	50
70	Feb 8, '22	If you’re interested in the future of AI, don’t miss this: we’ll be sharing some incredible research breakthroughs, plus a debate on the path to human-level intelligence featuring	8.4×	0	230	36	32
71	Oct 8, '20	This is a really big step forward in reproducible research. You can now link your papers to the code on papers with code!	8.1×	0	243	48	10
72	Nov 2, '21	Passthrough mixed reality experiences, ability to detect if a person, pet or object jumps in your way during a VR session. People don't really realize the compounding R&D inves	7.8×	0	271	21	9
73	May 25, '21	@supercimomo Given Tesla's ability to capture and label data at fleet-wide scale this is a smart approach. Computer Vision continues to advance quickly and we have a proof point in	7.4×	0	225	31	5
74	Jan 24, '22	Performance will be almost 5 exaflops of mixed precision compute (that’s 5 billion billion operations per second) This will be awesome for AI research.	7.2×	0	223	29	9
75	Jun 2, '22	You don’t grow a business by 430x to annual revenues of $118 billion w/o top .01% people and execution skills. That should be obvious to anyone. But what is more obvious to those	7.2×	0	265	7	14
76	Apr 30, '21	We even applied this model to a problem it wasn’t trained for: in this case, recognizing duplicate images. It outperformed existing state of the art models there too, even though t	7.0×	0	271	14	5
77	Mar 30, '21	6 months on the market and outsold all of our prior VR systems combined. Now the real fun begins as developers have an increasing installed base to target	7.0×	0	229	21	7
78	Apr 30, '21	In non-tech jargon. It figured out how to pick out the important parts of a video all on its own. This idea of "self supervision" is inspired by how young children learn language,	6.9×	0	261	12	7
79	Oct 28, '21	@moskov I still don't understand why Netflix is there but Microsoft isn't?	6.7×	0	266	3	0
80	Jun 2, '22	She’s always recruiting. Look at the amazing bench of leaders she's hired to replace herself. Those few she didn’t hire were mentored by her. This is her greatest legacy: finding a	6.6×	0	257	7	11
81	Oct 18, '21	@reckless @CaseyNewton Need a hand?	5.5×	0	222	9	1
82	May 4, '24	I cannot wait for this to be rolled out!!	5.2×	18k	61	8	4
83	Mar 14, '24	HUGE CONGRATS to the @SpaceX team for the starship and super heavy launch just now!!! Wow!!!!	4.8×	16k	102	13	1
84	Nov 10, '23	Two common myths I wish we could bust r.e. climate change. 1) We can't build stuff fast enough. Nonsense. Have you paid attention to the rollout of datacenters or amazon warehouses	4.7×	16k	55	14	6
85	Nov 20, '23	Best proof yet we are not in a simulation. No programmer is this creative.	4.2×	14k	104	23	4
86	Nov 20, '23	Every experienced board member is having a day like when a blockbuster movie gets made about your profession.	2.6×	9k	34	13	0
87	Mar 15, '24	Super fun recording a podcast with @kevin_scott today - we got to nerd out on everything from climate tech, to data centers, to llama2, to the early days of computer graphics. Can'	2.4×	8.3k	30	11	2
88	May 29, '24	This was a lot of fun - thank you @HarryStebbings !	2.4×	8.1k	25	6	4
89	May 29, '24	Leaders this is your job!	2.2×	7.7k	22	3	7
90	Apr 30, '24	Honest question what are the best cautionary tales of technology being deployed too quickly and if studied more or deployed more slowly would have been better?	2.2×	7.6k	12	4	4
91	May 4, '24	One of the most exciting things out there right now. I love that this is peer reviewed and published.	2.2×	7.6k	19	8	1
92	Dec 15, '23	Come work on climate tech with me at Gigascale Capital!! If you are experienced operator/executive in hard tech and but new to climate tech investing we are hiring a Visiting Partn	2.2×	7.5k	26	17	3
93	Nov 13, '23	Second @Tesla semi sighting in last week - this one in front of an electric pickup from @Rivian! Imagine a future just 20 years out where most vehicles on the road from pickups, to	1.8×	6.3k	35	16	0
94	Jun 4, '24	Very excited to be backing this! Humans have made fusion happen on earth- now it is time to turn it into a viable commercial source of unlimited clean power.	1.3×	4.4k	16	4	1
95	Dec 7, '23	Yes we can build stuff fast. More here:	1.2×	4.3k	43	19	0
96	Nov 16, '23	Documentary video of my configuring settings in the Google Workplace Admin Console.	1.2×	4k	25	15	3
97	Nov 13, '23	.@volvocars pls bring this to the US market! Would love to find an option for a fully electric minivan!	1.0×	3.4k	23	13	1
98	Jun 18, '24	Huge new study from @mill: 1. During the first four months of a mill you reduce you waste buy about 20% 2. In one year of operation with a small run of their v1 product they've div	0.9×	3.2k	16	5	0

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