Yann LeCun
Convolutional network researcher · 2018 Turing Award co-recipient
Records 8
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LLM skepticism capitalized as a $1 billion-scale bet on an alternative route
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
With an independent lab pursuing world models rather than LLMs, the landscape of the discourse split
The biggest skeptic camp splitting off organizationally
A rejection of his own company's flagship technology route, coming from Meta's chief scientist
The founding document of the JEPA and world-model approach. LLM skepticism took the form of an alternative design rather than criticism
Established a practical CNN architecture combining convolution, pooling and fully connected layers, and made MNIST the standard testbed
An early case of combining weight sharing with backpropagation to apply a neural network to a real-world task