Meta's Yann LeCun to Launch Physical AI Startup After Declaring LLMs 'Dead End'
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- Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief A.I. scientist, is leaving to launch his own A.I. startup.
- Meta is reorienting its efforts toward advanced A.I. and superintelligence research.
- LeCun joined Meta in 2013, helped launch FAIR, and won the Turing Award in 2018.
- Meta’s restructuring consolidates A.I. research under TBD labs, focusing on superintelligence.
- FAIR, which contributed to Meta’s Llama model, lost its leader Joelle Pineau earlier this year.
- LeCun’s new startup will focus on 'world models,' training A.I. to understand the physical world.
- He criticizes large language models (LLMs) as a 'dead end' for human-like A.I.
- Other companies like Google DeepMind and Nvidia are also exploring world models.
- LeCun believes world models are key to A.I. that can reason, plan, and predict.