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LeCun via LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\nLeCun is working on\u00a0AI technology that goes beyond the Transformer LLMs<\/a> we know today. He’s argued in the past\u2014even with a Deepmind researcher<\/a>\u2014that\u00a0LLMs aren’t what’s needed for child-like learning, which itself would be a precursor for true intelligence.<\/p>\n Deepmind co-founder Demis Hassabis, usually known for his restraint, already sees humanity “standing in the foothills of the singularity,” expecting a “profound moment for humanity.” Those words will likely end up in the history books, no matter how things play out.<\/p>\n Hassabis said this at the close of his Google I\/O 2026 keynote<\/a>\u00a0(1:50:17). He believes AGI is possible within the next five years, and when it happens,\u00a0it’ll be “10 times the industrial revolution at 10 times the speed.”<\/a><\/p>\n Oriol Vinyals, co-lead of the Gemini program<\/a>, splits the difference: today’s models are strong at code and math, and reasoning keeps getting more general, he says. If someone had shown him these models seven years ago, he probably would’ve called them AGI. But the\u00a0ability to learn from experience<\/a>\u00a0and produce real breakthroughs is still missing.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive “AI Radar” frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n