Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
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Discussion
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@thexcapitalist
@thexcapitalist
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Yann LeCun leaving $META is more bearish than rising capex, depreciation, whatever. He's one of the Godfathers of modern AI. He is the reason why $META has one of the most developed world models today, as he pioneered them while everybody focused on LLMs. Huge loss for $META
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@rulxway
@rulxway
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about time yann lecun left that place nothing good there
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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Huge: Yann LeCun is about to leave Meta! He plans to launch his own start-up! That was to be expected. Resources were increasingly taken away from him, and important positions were reassigned. At the same time, Lecun is also largely responsible for Meta's significant losses in [i…
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@mark_k
Mark Kretschmann
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Reminder that Yann LeCun did not actually work on Llama. He is known for criticizing LLMs and for proposing his own architecture, JEPA instead. So you cannot blame LeCun for Llama's failures.
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@moorehn
Heidi N. Moore
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What's interesting about this one job move is that LeCun was essentially demoted and pushed out of Meta because he refused to drink the Kool-Aid: He thinks AI is useful, but he does not think AI is Jesus. The purge of skeptics is always a bad sign for the future of an industry.
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@d_ijk_stra
@d_ijk_stra
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Yes, Yann LeCun is well known for never accepting a boss younger than himself. His previous bosses include... Mark Zuckerberg.
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@deedydas
Deedy
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Meta's AI org is in disarray. First Soumitra Chintala, the inventor of PyTorch leaves. Now Yann LeCun, their AI head leaves. They have $600B in compute commits until 2028, but I guess it's up to Alex Wang and Nat Friedman to deliver.
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@grady_booch
Grady Booch
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Fascinating: https://x.com/...
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@arian_ghashghai
Arian Ghashghai
on x
Historic fumble by Meta Fairly certain the idiotic re-orgs that took power away from research (i.e. LeCun) accelerated the decision to leave
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
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Decapitating FAIR has consequences Looks like he met Andrew Ng for a reason
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@stefanfschubert
Stefan Schubert
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Yann LeCun is planning to leave Meta to found his own start-up, as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to radically overhaul the company's AI operations. https://www.ft.com/... [image]
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@jukanlosreve
Jukan
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Yann LeCun is leaving Meta lol. Of course. He ended up in a position where he has to report to a kid much younger than him — how could his pride not be hurt? If I were him, I'd leave Meta too. [image]
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
on x
Most bullish Meta AI news in a long time [image]
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@sungkim
Sung Kim
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If I had to report to this clown, I'd leave too. What's with the trucker hat and that loud t-shirt? — Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun, has reportedly told associates he plans to leave the Silicon Valley company in the coming months. — www.ft.com/co…
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@mgsiegler.com
M.G. Siegler
on bluesky
Yeah, only so many shit sandwiches you can eat at the company cafeteria. Per last month... 💩🥪 spyglass.org/signal-the-l... [embedded post]
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@ciaranm
Ciaran Martin
on bluesky
Whatever else, this promises to be the funniest of all the AI start-ups: would be typical of Yann to call it bubble.ai — www.ft.com/content/c586...
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@robertscotthorton
Scott Horton
on bluesky
Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun is planning to leave the social media giant to found his own start-up, as Zuckerberg seeks to radically overhaul the company's AI operations. LeCun has told associates he will leave the Silicon Valley group in the coming …
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@peark.es
George Pearkes
on bluesky
Zuck, call your office. Zuck, call your office.