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Yann LeCun's tiny 109M model aligns with vision better than 72B LLMs
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In a study published on October 29, Yann LeCun and Randall Balestriero claim to demonstrate that a small, well-nourished AI model makes a better picture of the world than a 660-fold larger LLM. " Yann LeCun was right," excited the influencer IA Shruti Mishra on X, November 1, 2026.
Yann LeCun's tiny 109M model aligns with vision better than 72B LLMs
The authors argue the gap comes from training structure, not scale: good views, such as a photo and its caption, need 42 times fewer training samples than next-token prediction. No independent group has yet replicated the 109M-versus-72B result.
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