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Meta’s FAIR Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave the company and start his own startup, Financial Times reported
- LeCun who is considered the pioneer of modern AI has told associates that he will leave Meta Platforms in the coming months and plans to raise funds for his own startup, Financial Times reported.
- LeCun and Meta declined to comment.
- LeCun’s departure follows Zuckerberg’s pivot away from the work of FAIR to superintelligence.
- LeCun was working on human-level intelligence models that could take years to materialize and has been heading a team at FAIR since 2013.
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Assessment
In my opinion, it makes sense that LeCun is leaving given reduced relevance of FAIR. Meta’s Superintelligence (MSL) now has its own chief scientist ( Shengjia Zhao), who co-created ChatGPT. Nevertheless, his exit could lead to more departures of legacy AI executives.