Overview
- Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, announced he will depart after 12 years to start his own AI company.
- He said the new venture will carry forward the Advanced Machine Intelligence agenda developed with FAIR and NYU and continue cooperating with Meta.
- The AMI program aims to build systems with real-world understanding, long-term memory, reasoning, and multi-step planning.
- LeCun has long questioned the focus on scaling large language models, recently advising young researchers not to center their work on LLMs.
- Bloomberg reported he has struggled to secure resources inside Meta as the company prioritized product-style models to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.