LeCun interview after leaving Meta to found Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs
Interview after leaving Meta and founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs — said there are probably many people at Meta who would rather he not tell the world that LLMs are basically a dead end, and that you cannot tell a researcher like him what to do
Why it matters
A case in which a split over direction ended in an actual divergence of capital and organization. A V-JEPA-based world model secured independent funding
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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