Overview
- LeCun told the Financial Times that Meta used different Llama 4 variants on different tests to boost scores, a practice he called "fudged a little bit," while Meta's Ahmad Al-Dahle previously attributed replication gaps to cloud differences.
- He said the benchmark controversy drained leadership confidence, prompting Mark Zuckerberg to overhaul AI efforts and create Meta Superintelligence Labs after Llama 4's reception.
- Meta bought a 49% stake in Scale AI for roughly $14–15 billion and installed founder Alexandr Wang to run the new lab, with LeCun formally reporting to him.
- LeCun described Wang as young and inexperienced in leading research teams, said Wang was not directing his work, and warned that many researchers have left or plan to leave.
- He maintains LLMs are a dead end for superintelligence and has launched Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs as executive chairman to pursue world-model research, with reports citing a $3 billion valuation target and Alex LeBrun as CEO.