It appears Yann LeCun couldn’t handle the Wang… 

While you were busy selling your soul to a 50-year mortgage yesterday, Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner, and the guy who basically taught machines how to see cats on YouTube, is dipping out of Meta to start his own company. Ohhh, brother. My thoughts exactly. Translation: Meta AI is basically FUBAR at this point.

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In short, LeCun’s been at Meta since 2013, running its Fundamental AI Research Lab (FAIR)... a.k.a., the part of the company that used to dream in decades, not deadlines. But then Zuck decided he was done waiting for “science” and wanted “superintelligence.” He dropped $14 billion on Scale AI, handed the keys to its CEO Alexandr Wang (age: barely old enough to remember the Pets dot com clusterf*k), and told everyone to start cranking out ChatGPT clones.

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Now LeCun’s had enough. He’s raising money for a startup that’ll build “world models”... which to him are AI systems that can actually understand their environment instead of just autocomplete the universe one token at a time. Basically, he wants to make AI that can think like a person rather than role-play as one. The irony though is that Zuck spent the last year telling everyone Meta was about to reach “superintelligence,” while his own AI chief was tweeting that current LLMs aren’t even “smarter than a house cat.” One man’s AI revolution is another man’s litter box. Whereas now, inside Meta, things sound like a Silicon Valley episode written by Kafka. Fifty-plus engineers poached from rival labs, an AI division split between researchers and product mercenaries, and a CEO who keeps throwing $100 million contracts at whoever still believes in him. All so Meta can catch up to OpenAI, whose models have been clapping the cheeks of Meta’s. 

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Which means… which means… LeCun leaving is a royal kneecapping. The guy who helped build modern AI just walked away from one of the richest companies on Earth because it was moving too fast and thinking too little. And now as the VC vultures start licking their chops over LeCuns new company, the ultimate litmus test of “we’re in a bubble” is how many brinks trucks back up to it. 

So yeah… in the end, Meta’s superintelligence dream just lost its only adult. Can’t wait to see how this ends. Spoiler: It’s not going to be good. Until next time, friends… 

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