Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes that the industry’s current obsession with large language models ...

Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world.

Yann LeCun, Meta’s outgoing chief AI scientist, says his employer tested its latest Llama model in a way that may have made the model look better than it really was. In a recent Financial Times ...

AI pioneer Yann LeCun predicted that more Meta AI employees will leave the company. LeCun was critical of Alexandr Wang, who Meta poached to lead its Superintelligence Labs, in an interview with FT.

After departing, Yann LeCun has offered an unusually candid account of why he left Meta, pointing to a research culture he says tilted too heavily toward large language models (LLMs) and away from ...

Yann LeCun left Meta late last year to launch his own startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, focused on building “world models” that can understand and navigate the physical environment.

From the outset of his time at Meta, then Facebook, LeCun was granted unusual freedom to pursue AI research, free from the immediate pressure to develop a profitable product. He told the FT that ...

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Yann LeCun warns Meta’s 29-year-old AI officer will trigger staff exodus and says LLMs are a ‘dead end’ for superintelligence. Wang became LeCun’s manager after Meta invested $15 billion in his ...

AI pioneer Yann LeCun isn't sold on Mark Zuckerberg's $14 billion bet on Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old Scale AI cofounder recruited to lead Meta's Superintelligence Labs. In a new interview with the ...

What if the next big leap in artificial intelligence wasn’t about generating text or images but about truly understanding the world around us? The AI Grid outlines how a new model called VLJ ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence hinges on a single, unresolved question: is intelligence inherently specialized or truly general? In a fascinating video, the AI Grid breaks down the ...