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A profile of Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, who says LLMs are a dead end for reaching AGI and backs world models instead, and is reportedly leaving Meta (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-

Bestätigt: Yann LeCun verlässt Meta
Yann LeCun gründet ein Start-up für Advanced Machine Intelligence. Meta verliert einen der anerkanntesten KI-Experten der Welt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Bestaetigt-Yan…

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c586eb77-a16e-4363-ab0b-e877898b70de

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

Fox News ran a story based on AI-generated videos about SNAP beneficiaries before correcting the story; Newsmax aired a similar segment with AI-generated clips (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-ai-fake-snap-meta-yann-lecun-new…

AI fakes are duping Fox News, Newsmax, and ... maybe Meta's AI expert?
We've known for years that AI would be able to make fake video that could dupe us. Now it looks like we're here.

VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
Delong Chen, Mustafa Shukor, Theo Moutakanni, Willy Chung, Jade Yu, Tejaswi Kasarla, Allen Bolourchi, Yann LeCun, Pascale Fung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10942

Nick Clegg und Yann LeCun: Start-up für Advanced Machine Intelligence
Die Ex-Meta-Leitenden gründen mit AMI ein Start-up, das maschineller Intelligenz statt LLMs verschrieben ist. CEO wird Alex LeBrun.

Nick Clegg joins London-based VC firm Hiro Capital as a general partner, and Yann LeCun joins the firm as an adviser; sources: Hiro looks to raise a €500M fund (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/98cf87d9-3d1c-4f60-9c50-eed36a25e219

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Yann LeCun is departing Meta; sources: Meta plans to partner with LeCun on his new startup, which will be focused on world models (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/meta-ai-s-lecun-to-announce-exit-s…

Yann LeCun says Llama 4's "results were fudged a little bit", and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e3c4c2f6-4ea7-4adf-b945-e58495f836c2

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d88729c0-c44f-4530-b888-bafa29ee0446

OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming a GPT-5 math breakthrough after pushback from Hassabis, others; LeCun says they were "hoisted by their own GPTards" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/leading-openai

Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy communication.