Yair Alon spent a decade at Google Research and DeepMind. He built the deep learning models behind Portrait Mode on Pixel phones. He published papers on efficient deep learning. He designed models for Search, Ads, and YouTube. His last project was VideoPoet, a video generation system. Everything was great, by his own account. But he felt that small startups had become where the most exciting innovations were happenin
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