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Meta’s former Chief Scientist Yann LeCun described Alexander Wang as “young” and “inexperienced,” but noted that he learns fast
“He learns fast, he knows what he doesn’t know . . . There’s no experience with research or how you practise research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher,” he said.
He predicts more old Meta GenAI employees will leave since Zuckerberg lost confidence in them after the Llama 4 flopped.
“Mark was really upset and basically lost confidence in everyone who was involved in this. And so basically sidelined the entire GenAI organisation. A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven’t yet left will leave.”