Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
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Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#2Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#3Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
Yes, that was such a bizarre move.
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#4Will be interesting to see how he fares outside the ample resources of Meta: Personnel, capital, infrastructure, data, etc. Startups have a lot of flexibility, but a lot of additional moving parts. Good luck!
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#5Fi Fi Lee also recently founded a new AI startup called World Labs, which focus on creating AI world models with spatial intelligence to understand and interact with the 3D world, unlike current LLM AI that primarily processes 2D images and text. Almost exactly the same focus as Yann LeCun's new venture stated in the parent article.
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#6Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
He is also not very interested in LLMs, and that seems to be Zuck's top priority.
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#7"These models aim to replicate human reasoning and understanding of the physical world, a project LeCun has said could take a decade to mature."
What an insane time horizon to define success. I suppose he easily can raise enough capital for that kind of runway.
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#8Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
Would love to have been a fly on the wall during one of their 1:1’s.
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#9"These models aim to replicate human reasoning and understanding of the physical world, a project LeCun has said could take a decade to mature." What an insane time horizon to define success. I suppose he easily can raise enough capital for that kind of runway.
That guy has survived the AI winter. He can wait 10 years for yet another breakthrough.
[but the market can’t]
Re: Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
#10Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
He is also not very interested in LLMs, and that seems to be Zuck's top priority.
Yeah I think LeCun is underestimating the impact that LLM's and Diffusion models are going to have, even considering the huge impact they're already having. That's no problem as I'm sure whatever LeCun is working on is going to be amazing as well, but an enterprise like Facebook can't have their top researcher work on risky things when there's surefire paths to success still available.