Overview
- LeCun said he will depart at the end of the year after 12 years at Meta, where he founded the FAIR research lab and served as chief AI scientist.
- The new venture will focus on Advanced Machine Intelligence to build systems that understand the physical world, retain memory, reason, and plan complex actions.
- Meta confirmed it will partner with the startup, with specific terms, funding details, and structure yet to be disclosed.
- His exit follows Meta’s AI overhaul that included about a $14.5 billion investment in Scale AI, the appointment of Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, and roughly 600 job cuts in Superintelligence Labs.
- LeCun has repeatedly argued that scaling large language models is insufficient for human‑level intelligence and has promoted JEPA and video‑based world‑model approaches.