Overview
- LeCun announced he is forming a company to continue his Advanced Machine Intelligence program focused on world models that can understand the physical world, remember, reason, and plan.
- He said Meta will be a partner of the new venture and indicated further details will follow.
- Reuters reported he plans to leave at year-end after more than a decade leading FAIR and serving as chief AI scientist.
- The exit follows Meta’s shift toward an LLM-first strategy that included naming Alexandr Wang chief AI officer after a $14.5 billion Scale AI investment, bringing in Shengjia Zhao and Nat Friedman, and cutting 600 roles in October.
- LeCun has recently criticized large language models in public remarks, arguing they do not provide a path to human-level intelligence and that new architectures are needed.