LeCun has previously argued that large language models like Llama that Zuckerberg has put at the center of his strategy are useful, but they will never be able to reason and plan like humans, increasingly appearing to contradict his boss\u2019s grandiose AI vision<\/a> for developing \u201csuperintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n For example, in May 2024, when an OpenAI researcher discussed the need to control ultra-intelligent AI, LeCun responded<\/a> on X by writing that before urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than humans, researchers need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat.<\/p>\n \n Mark Zuckerberg once believed the \u201cmetaverse\u201d was the future and renamed his company because of it.<\/p>\n Credit:<\/p>\n Facebook<\/p>\n Within FAIR, LeCun has instead focused on developing world models that can truly plan and reason. Over the past year, though, Meta\u2019s AI research groups have seen growing tension and mass layoffs<\/a> as Zuckerberg has shifted the company\u2019s AI strategy away from long-term research and toward the rapid deployment of commercial products.<\/p>\n Over the summer, Zuckerberg hired Alexandr Wang to lead a new superintelligence team<\/a> at Meta, paying $14.3 billion to hire the 28-year-old founder of data-labeling startup Scale AI and acquire a 49 percent interest in his company. LeCun, who had previously reported to Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, now reports to Wang, which seems like a sharp rebuke of LeCun\u2019s approach to AI.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg also personally handpicked an exclusive team called TBD Lab<\/a> to accelerate the development of the next iteration of large language models, luring staff from rivals such as OpenAI and Google with astonishingly large $100 to $250 million pay packages<\/a>. As a result, Zuckerberg has come under growing pressure from Wall Street to show that his multibillion-dollar investment in becoming an AI leader will pay off and boost revenue. But if it turns out like his previous pivot to the metaverse<\/a>, Zuckerberg\u2019s latest bet could prove equally expensive and unfruitful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A different approach to AI LeCun founded Meta\u2019s Fundamental AI Research lab, known as FAIR, in 2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-282264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/zuckmetaverse-1024x569.jpg\")
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