"LeCun, who joined Meta in 2013, is a towering figure in the AI industry. A Turing Award winner, the 65-year-old is considered to be one of the three so-called "godfathers" of modern AI for his pioneering work on neural networks, the tech that underpins the large language models used by much of the AI industry. As such, his presence at Meta has imbued the company's often-struggling AI efforts with an aura of credibility."
"A major shake up appears to be taking place at Meta. LeCun's departure comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has carried out sweeping changes to Meta's approach to AI. Whereas before the company had a heavy focus on research and open source models, it's now retooling its efforts to focus more on fielding commercially competitive AI products, as its AI chatbots lags behind rivals, like Google and OpenAI."
Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta to start an AI startup after a decade there. He is a Turing Award winner and is considered one of the three so-called "godfathers" of modern AI for pioneering neural networks that underpin large language models. Meta is shifting from research and open-source models toward commercially competitive AI products under CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta's AI chatbots lag behind rivals such as Google and OpenAI. LeCun is an LLM skeptic who believes the architecture cannot achieve human-level cognition and advised developers to work on next-generation systems that lift LLM limitations. Meta invested heavily in Scale AI and hired Alexandr Wang to lead a newly created Superintelligence Labs.
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