US EditionMeta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun to leave Meta and start new AI research company
Yann LeCun will form a startup focused on Advanced Machine Intelligence to develop AI systems with world models, reasoning, and planning, partnering with Meta despite recent internal challenges.
- On Wednesday, LeCun said he is creating a startup to continue AMI research and that Meta 'will be a partner of the new company and will have access to its innovations.'
- Amid team reshuffles, internal sources say Meta cut several hundred jobs from Superintelligence Labs and FAIR last month, straining resources and favoring new generative-AI hires at TBD Labs.
- LeCun frames AMI as systems trained on video models like V-JEPA-2, with applications across many sectors, some overlapping with Meta's interests, as he wrote, `'As I envision it, AMI will have far-ranging applications in many sectors of the economy, some of which overlap with Meta's commercial interests, but many of which do not'`.
- A longtime Meta figure, Yann LeCun, 65, co-founded FAIR in 2013 and shared the 2019 Turing Award while maintaining ties to New York University.
- The departure coincides with Meta's $14.5 billion investment in Scale AI and hires like Alexandr Wang and Shengjia Zhao, while its AI unit struggles after the Llama model release and Bloomberg reports plans to partner with LeCun.
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The French researcher says he wants to work on "the next great revolution of the AI: systems likely to understand the physical world". Meta instead decided to focus on the development of the great language models (LLM), against which Yann LeCun was critical.
A page turns to Meta, where Yann LeCun has spent 12 years at the head of the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) laboratory. Until this year, he embodied Meta's extensive work in the field of AI. But in recent months, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of...
Meta's Chief AI Scientist is leaving the company after 12 years
One of Meta's top AI researchers, Yann LeCun, is leaving after 12 years with the company to found his own AI startup, he announced. LeCun, who is also a professor at New York University, joined the company in 2013 to lead Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab and later took on the role of Chief AI Scientist. LeCun said his new startup would "continue the Advanced Machine Intelligence research program (AMI) I have been pursuing over the last …
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