Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, announced in a Facebook post that he was leaving Meta to form his own startup and “bring about the next big revolution in AI.”
The winner of the Turing award, computer science’s highest honor, will pursue his vision of AI in the new company he is forming. He believes world models, not large language models, will propel AI toward superintelligence. Meta will be a partner in his new venture.
LeCun said “the goal of the startup is to bring about the next big revolution in AI: systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action sequences.”
The French scientist’s view stands in stark contrast to those of his former boss, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has pursued a different AI path. Zuckerberg has been racing to build and scale large language models in a quest for AGI. He has created a new superintelligence lab, which is led by Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI. Wang is Meta’s chief AI officer.
Read more in the WSJ.