[YetAnotherNick]

It's "Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research", not fundamental. So basically involves both fundamental and applied research.

[1]: https://engineering.fb.com/category/ai-research/

[qwertyi0k]

Ref: Yann lecun post on linkedin, 3years ago: FAIR now stand for "Fundamental AI Research"

[YetAnotherNick]

I literally linked the official site and it currently says Facebook. I have known FAIR for many years and I have always know it as Facebook. Can you link any official source of changing the name.

[stephenjayakar]

I gotcha. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_big-changes-for-ai..., https://ai.meta.com/blog/fair-10-year-anniversary-open-scien...