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As per the post, the decision of Zuckerberg to have LeCun report to Wang signaled a shift in priorities \u2014 away from foundational AI research and toward rapid, product-driven development. \u201cYann never believed in LLM-to-AGI. Zuck\u2019s patience ran out,\u201d Jin wrote, referencing LeCun\u2019s well-known skepticism of large language models as a path to artificial general intelligence.<\/p>\n
What Yann LeCun said on leaving Meta<\/p>\n
In a LinkedIn post, LeCun wrote:\u201cAs many of you have heard through rumors 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. The impact of FAIR on the company, on the field of AI, on the tech community, and on the wider world has been spectacular. The creation of FAIR is my proudest non-technical accomplishment.I am creating a startup company to continue the Advanced Machine Intelligence research program (AMI) I have been pursuing over the last several years with colleagues at FAIR, at NYU, and beyond. 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.I am extremely grateful to Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Bosworth, Chris Cox, and Mike Schroepfer for their support of FAIR, and for their support of the AMI program over the last few years. Because of their continued interest and support, Meta will be a partner of the new company.As I envision it, AMI will have far-ranging applications in many sectors of the economy, some of which overlap with Meta\u2019s commercial interests, but many of which do not. Pursuing the goal of AMI in an independent entity is a way to maximize its broad impact. I will give some more details about the new company when the time comes. In the meantime, I\u2019m sticking around Meta until the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yann LeCun, Meta\u2019s Chief AI scientist is leaving the company after 12 years. Sharing a post on professional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,17005,23804,733,4308,133710,133709,7203,1324,86,1216,56,54,55,127791],"class_list":{"0":"post-345172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alexandr-wang","10":"tag-artificial-general-intelligence","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-facebook-ai-research","14":"tag-machine-intelligence","15":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","16":"tag-meta","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-tesla","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom","22":"tag-yann-lecun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345172","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=345172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Yann LeCun, Meta\u2019s Chief AI scientist is leaving the company after 12 years. Sharing a post on professional networking platform LinkedIn in November, LeCun said that he is building a startup company to continue the Advanced Machine Intelligence research program (AMI) that he has been pursuing over the last several years with \u201ccolleagues at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), New York University (NYU) and beyond.\u201d Interestingly, his move marks a shift from his previous stance on entrepreneurship. The AI researcher once said that he has no interest in running companies or chasing deals. In a public conversation with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in May last year, LeCun famously said \u201cI’m a scientist, not a business or product person.\u201d <\/p>\n