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Yann LeCun plans a startup focusing on AI 'world models' that understand physical environments, diverging from Meta's product-driven AI strategy, amid early investor talks.
- On November 11, 2025, the Financial Times reported Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner, plans to leave Meta Platforms Inc. to start a world models-focused AI startup.
- After Llama 4 underperformed, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pivoted toward rapid, product-focused LLM development, investing $14.3 billion in Scale AI and appointing Alexandr Wang to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs, with Yann LeCun now reporting to Wang.
- LeCun has long argued that large language models are a `dead end` for human-like AI and favors world models that simulate cause-and-effect for reasoning and planning.
- The company cut about 600 AI roles last month, with more than half the original Llama authors leaving and reports saying Fundamental AI Research is fading as Meta prioritizes commercial AI teams.
- Looking ahead, LeCun says these systems could take about a decade to mature as other labs like Google DeepMind, Nvidia, and World Labs also develop world models while Meta invests over $600 billion.
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The French scientist in artificial intelligence has a start-up project, according to the American press, while Mark Zuckerberg reorganizes all the teams internally.
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Meta’s Yann LeCun to Launch Physical A.I. Startup After Declaring LLMs a ‘Dead End’
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief A.I. scientist, is reportedly leaving the tech giant to launch his own A.I. startup, according to the Financial Times, which cited sources familiar with the matter. His departure comes as Meta increasingly reorients its efforts toward developing advanced forms of A.I. A hiring spree and internal restructuring have prioritized Meta’s research on superintelligence, placing LeCun’s long-term work at Meta’s Fundamental AI Re…
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