"LeCun, a professor at New York University, senior researcher at Meta, and winner of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, plans to leave in the coming months, and is already in talks to raise capital for a startup that would focus on continuing his work on world models. A world model is an AI system that develops an internal understanding of its environment so it can simulate cause-and-effect scenarios to predict outcomes."
"LeCun's departure would come at a pivotal time for Meta, which has of late changed how it approaches AI development in response to concerns that it is being outpaced by rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The company has reportedly started revamping its AI organization after hiring over 50 engineers and researchers from its competitors to build out a new AI unit, dubbed Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)."
Yann LeCun intends to leave Meta in the coming months to raise capital and found a startup aimed at advancing world models. LeCun is a New York University professor, a senior researcher at Meta, and an A.M. Turing Award winner. World models allow AI systems to form internal representations of environments to simulate cause-and-effect and predict outcomes. Meta has reorganized its AI efforts, hiring over 50 engineers to form Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), investing in Scale AI, and appointing Alexandr Wang to lead the new division. LeCun's long-term FAIR research has been overshadowed by the company's recent strategic shifts after Llama 4 underperformance.
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