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WHAT IS NEXT FOR YANN LECUN AFTER HIS DEPARTURE FROM META?
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Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner and pioneer of modern AI, will leave his role as Meta's chief AI scientist by the end of the year to start a new AI startup. LeCun has been vocal about the limitations of LLMs and believes the AI community is headed in the wrong direction. He doesn't believe that scaling LLMs will result in human-level AI. His new startup will focus on developing AI systems that understand the physical world through self-supervised learning and world models.