US EditionMeta’s Yann LeCun to Launch Physical A.I. Startup After Declaring LLMs a ‘Dead End’
- On 2025-11-11, Yann LeCun, Meta's Chief AI Scientist, is preparing to leave Meta to establish his own AI startup, with no mention of ongoing work at FAIR.
- Meta's internal revamp has involved Mark Zuckerberg's restructuring and hiring over 50 engineers to build Meta Superintelligence Labs, following Llama 4 underperformance.
- Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and appointed Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, while Yann LeCun publicly criticized LLM hype and said AI still has a long way to go.
- LeCun's exit would arrive as Meta changes its AI approach amid concerns it is being outpaced by OpenAI, Google and Anthropic; Meta did not immediately return a request for comment.
- Other labs including Google DeepMind and World Labs are developing world models, AI systems that simulate cause-and-effect to predict outcomes.
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Meta’s Yann LeCun to Launch Physical A.I. Startup After Declaring LLMs a ‘Dead End’
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