{"id":165051,"date":"2025-11-12T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/metas-star-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-plans-to-leave-for-own-startup\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:14:16","slug":"metas-star-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-plans-to-leave-for-own-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/metas-star-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-plans-to-leave-for-own-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yann_LeCun\">Yann LeCun<\/a> plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called \u201cworld models,\u201d the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c586eb77-a16e-4363-ab0b-e877898b70de\">reported<\/a>. The French-US scientist has reportedly told associates he will depart in the coming months and is already in early talks to raise funds for the new venture. The departure comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/19\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html\">radically overhauled<\/a> Meta\u2019s AI operations after deciding the company had fallen behind rivals such as OpenAI and Google.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/glossary\/world-models\/\">World models<\/a> are hypothetical AI systems that some AI engineers expect to develop an internal \u201cunderstanding\u201d of the physical world by learning from video and spatial data rather than text alone. Unlike current large language models (such as the kind that power ChatGPT) that predict the next segment of data in a sequence, world models would ideally simulate cause-and-effect scenarios, understand physics, and enable machines to reason and plan more like animals do. LeCun has said this architecture could take a decade to fully develop.<\/p>\n<p>While some AI experts believe that Transformer-based AI models\u2014such as <a href=\"https:\/\/aiguide.substack.com\/p\/llms-and-world-models-part-1\">large language models<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/runwayml.com\/research\/introducing-general-world-models\">video synthesis models<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/08\/deepmind-reveals-genie-3-world-model-that-creates-real-time-interactive-simulations\/\">interactive world synthesis models<\/a>\u2014have emergently modeled physics or absorbed the structural rules of the physical world from training data examples, the evidence so far generally points to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/06\/with-the-launch-of-o3-pro-lets-talk-about-what-ai-reasoning-actually-does\/\">sophisticated pattern-matching<\/a> rather than a base understanding of how the physical world actually works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/11\/metas-star-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-plans-to-leave-for-own-startup\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/11\/metas-star-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-plans-to-leave-for-own-startup\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called \u201cworld models,\u201d the Financial Times reported. The French-US scientist has reportedly told associates he will depart in the coming months and is already in early talks to raise funds for the new venture. 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