"He learns fast, he knows what he doesn't know . . . There's no experience with research or how you practice research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher," LeCun said."
""Mark was really upset and basically lost confidence in everyone who was involved in this," he told FT. "And so basically sidelined the entire GenAI organisation.""
""There's no experience with research or how you practice research," LeCun said about the Scale AI cofounder."
Yann LeCun predicts additional departures from Meta's AI organization and questions Alexandr Wang's research experience despite Wang's rapid learning. Meta invested $14 billion in Scale AI and recruited Wang to lead the Super Intelligence Lab. LeCun asserts that some results from the Llama 4 effort were fudged, which eroded Mark Zuckerberg's confidence and led to sidelining the GenAI team. LeCun emphasizes that effective research requires practice, understands researcher incentives, and that directing researchers can be counterproductive. The combination of high-stakes investments, internal mistrust, and leadership changes has increased turmoil within Meta's AI efforts.
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