US EditionMeta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun to Leave for Startup
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner, plans a startup focused on world models amid strategic clashes over AI's future direction.
- On November 11, 2025, the Financial Times reported Yann LeCun, vice president and chief AI scientist at Meta, plans to leave in the coming months to start a world-model-focused AI startup and is in early funding talks.
- After a major reorganization at Meta, the company invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and shifted LeCun to report to Alexandr Wang, reflecting a strategic divide in AI focus.
- As a Turing Award winner and FAIR founder, Yann LeCun, Meta's vice president and chief AI scientist, has argued that large language models cannot achieve human-level reasoning and favors systems trained on physical data.
- Meta's AI unit faces immediate fallout as Meta's stock dipped nearly 3 percent, amid recent cuts of about 600 AI positions and resignations in superintelligence teams.
- The departure signals a fundamental divide in the artificial general intelligence debate as Google DeepMind, Nvidia, and World Labs pursue world models while Meta faces investor pressure to deliver.
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