{"id":273493,"date":"2025-11-20T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:08:07","slug":"ai-godfather-yann-lecun-to-leave-meta-and-start-own-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273493\/","title":{"rendered":"AI godfather Yann LeCun to leave Meta and start own firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof LeCun announced his planned departure from Meta on Wednesday after more than a week of rumours and reports of his exit.<\/p>\n

In a series of posts on Threads, he thanked the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and highlighted its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab as his “proudest non-technical accomplishment”.<\/p>\n

“As many of you have heard through rumours or recent media articles, I am planning to leave Meta after 12 years: 5 years as founding director of FAIR and 7 years as Chief AI Scientist,” he wrote, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The impact of FAIR on the company, on the field of AI, on the tech community, and on the wider world has been spectacular.”<\/p>\n

The lab has over the years focused on developing systems and techniques to advance machine learning and translation.<\/p>\n

But, like large parts of the sector, Meta has looked to concentrate much of the company’s research and spending on large language models (LLMs) – the systems at the heart of generative AI tools such as chatbots and image generators.<\/p>\n

Prof LeCun has suggested LLMs will be less useful in attempting to create AI systems that can match human intelligence.<\/p>\n

Instead, he wants to pursue what he called “advanced machine intelligence”.<\/p>\n

It trains AI models primarily by using visual learning – trying to replicate how a child or a baby animal learns.<\/p>\n

That differs to LLMs, which are fed vast amounts of existing data, and then asked to generate a result based on the data and a prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof LeCun announced his planned departure from Meta on Wednesday after more than a week of rumours and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}