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Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun

Former Chief AI Scientist, Meta (2013–2025); Founder, AMI Labs

Appears in 3 stories

Notable Quotes

"Results were fudged a little bit... they used different models for different benchmarks to give better results." — Yann LeCun to the Financial Times, January 2026

"He is inexperienced." — Yann LeCun on Alexandr Wang, January 2026, via CNBC

Nobody in their right mind would use them anymore, at least not as the central component of an AI system.

Stories

Meta abandons open-source AI playbook with first proprietary model from Superintelligence Labs

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Left Meta; raised $1.03 billion for AI startup AMI Labs

For three years, Meta staked its AI strategy on open-source; the Llama series became the industry's most widely used open-weight model family. On April 8, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark from its new Superintelligence Labs—and kept it closed, a shift for a company that once argued open-source would defeat proprietary rivals the way Linux beat Unix.

Updated May 30

The race to build frontier AI

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Departed Meta; raised $1.03 billion for new AI startup

Meta Platforms has committed more money to artificial intelligence than any other company in history—up to $135 billion in 2026 alone, and $600 billion in American data center infrastructure by 2028. But money hasn't bought capability. The company's next-generation AI model, code-named Avocado, was delayed from March to at least May 2026 after tests showed it trailing Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on reasoning, coding, and writing.

Updated May 30

The AI reasoning revolution

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Leaving Meta to launch AMI Labs pursuing alternative AI architectures

OpenAI's GPT-5 dropped August 7, 2025, completing AI's shift from chatbots that string words together to systems that think through problems step-by-step. Google DeepMind's models won the International Math Olympiad by solving problems only five humans cracked, as Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, and every major AI lab raced to build reasoning models.

Updated May 19