Overview
- After 12 years at Meta, chief AI scientist Yann LeCun announced he will leave to found an independent company advancing the Advanced Machine Intelligence program.
- LeCun says the new venture will pursue real‑world understanding, long‑term memory, reasoning, and multi‑step planning, with plans to keep collaborating with Meta.
- He argues scaling large language models alone will not reach human‑level intelligence and has advised young researchers not to center their work on LLMs.
- Bloomberg reporting, cited in the coverage, says LeCun struggled to secure resources inside Meta as it prioritized product‑style models to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
- In separate public remarks, Elon Musk said generative AI and robotics could make money largely insignificant and work optional, reiterating his vision tied to Optimus robots and universal income.