Overview
- Financial Times reports LeCun has told colleagues he aims to leave within months and is in early fundraising talks for a venture focused on “world models.”
- LeCun’s research vision prioritizes systems that learn from video and spatial data, contrasting with Meta’s push to scale large language models for quick productization.
- Meta this year took a 49% stake in Scale AI for about $14.3 billion and named founder Alexandr Wang to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs, changing LeCun’s reporting line to Wang.
- The restructuring followed the underperformance of Llama 4 and included cuts of roughly 600 AI roles and senior departures such as Joelle Pineau.
- Meta shares fell around 1% to 1.6% after the report, and representatives did not provide a definitive public comment.