Yann LeCun, a pioneer successful artificial intelligence, has announced helium volition permission his relation arsenic Meta's main AI idiosyncratic astatine the extremity of the year
ByThe Associated Press
November 19, 2025, 4:49 PM
NEW YORK -- Artificial quality pioneer Yann LeCun said Wednesday helium volition beryllium leaving his occupation arsenic Meta's main AI idiosyncratic astatine the extremity of the year.
LeCun said helium volition beryllium forming a startup institution to prosecute probe connected precocious forms of AI that tin “understand the carnal world, person persistent memory, tin reason, and tin program analyzable enactment sequences.”
His announcement, aft much than a week of rumors, comes aft Meta Platforms, the genitor institution of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, began cutting astir 600 AI jobs this fall.
LeCun said successful a societal media station that Meta volition spouse with the caller startup and that immoderate of the probe volition overlap with Meta's commercialized interests and immoderate of it volition not.
LeCun joined Facebook successful 2013 and co-founded Meta’s AI probe division, formerly known arsenic Facebook AI Research. LeCun stepped down arsenic the group’s manager successful 2018 but has remained Meta’s main AI scientist.
He's besides a part-time prof astatine New York University, wherever helium has taught since 2003.
LeCun spent his aboriginal vocation astatine the representation processing section astatine AT&T Bell Labs successful New Jersey, wherever helium worked connected processing AI systems that could “read” substance recovered successful digitized images. He was a victor successful 2019 of machine science's apical prize, the Turing Award, on with chap AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton.
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