"During his 12 years at the company, Prof LeCun won the prestigious Turing Award and witnessed several flurries of excitement around AI - not least the most recent boom in generative AI accelerated by rival OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. But his departure comes amid speculation the AI boom could meet an abrupt end should the so-called "AI bubble" of ballooning valuations and soaring spending burst."
""As many of you have heard through rumours or recent media articles, I am planning to leave Meta after 12 years: 5 years as founding director of FAIR and 7 years as Chief AI Scientist," he wrote. "The impact of FAIR on the company, on the field of AI, on the tech community, and on the wider world has been spectacular."
Yann LeCun is leaving Meta after 12 years, including five years as founding director of FAIR and seven as Chief AI Scientist. He helped build FAIR and won a Turing Award while observing multiple AI booms, including the surge in generative AI after ChatGPT's 2022 launch. He announced the departure on Threads, thanked Mark Zuckerberg, and called FAIR his "proudest non-technical accomplishment". He plans to start a new firm to pursue "advanced machine intelligence". His exit coincides with concern about an AI market correction or "AI bubble" that could ripple across the wider economy.
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