{"id":57183,"date":"2025-11-11T19:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=57183"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:37:05","slug":"yann-lecun-to-leave-meta-to-launch-own-startup-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/yann-lecun-to-leave-meta-to-launch-own-startup-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Yann LeCun To Leave Meta To Launch Own Startup: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meta has rejigged its AI division in recent months, and it appears to have meant the departure of its Chief AI Scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yann LeCun, Meta&#8217;s Chief AI Scientist who&#8217;d joined the company in 2013, is leaving to launch his own startup, FT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c586eb77-a16e-4363-ab0b-e877898b70de\">reports<\/a>. LeCun has reportedly told associates that he intends to depart in the coming months. He is also also in early talks to raise funds for a new venture. Both Yann LeCun and Meta didn&#8217;t comment on FT&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MixCollage-24-Mar-2025-05-36-PM-8265.jpg?resize=640%2C336\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MixCollage-24-Mar-2025-05-36-PM-8265.jpg?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MixCollage-24-Mar-2025-05-36-PM-8265.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MixCollage-24-Mar-2025-05-36-PM-8265.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MixCollage-24-Mar-2025-05-36-PM-8265.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yann LeCun had joined Meta (then Facebook) in December 2013. He became the first director of the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) division. FAIR made a name for itself in AI and ML research, releasing Pytorch, which has become the de-facto standard for AI programming. More recently, FAIR released popular models such as SAM (Segment Anything Model) and the Llama series of models, which kick-started the open-weights AI revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Meta&#8217;s AI efforts were seen to be lagging in recent years. Llama 4 was widely seen to be a failure, and the space it vacated was quickly taken over by <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/top-10-chinese-ai-language-models-in-2025\/\">Chinese AI companies<\/a>. Meta had looked to put its AI ambitions back on track by acquiring 49% of Scale AI for $14 billion and <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/former-scale-ai-ceo-alexandr-wang-becomes-chief-ai-officer-at-meta\/\">placing <\/a>its founder and CEO, Alexandr Wang at the head of its AI efforts. Wang had initially managed to snag several top researchers from rival labs like OpenAI at some <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/meta-paying-100-million-bonuses-to-try-poach-our-talent-openai-ceo-sam-altman\/\">eye-popping salaries<\/a>, but has largely failed to release a breakthrough product so far. Meta had most recently<a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/meta-employees-take-to-x-for-finding-roles-after-600-laid-off-from-ai-division\/\"> laid off 600<\/a> AI researchers from its FAIR lab. Several big names have also left, including Pytorch creator Soumith Chintala, who&#8217;d said he was leaving Meta just last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this context, it makes sense that Yann LeCun wants to leave as well. 28-year-old Alexandr Wang is currently calling the shots at its AI division, and much of LeCun&#8217;s team has left or been fired. LeCun himself has expressed <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/not-in-an-ai-bubble-in-terms-of-apps-but-in-a-bubble-in-believing-llms-will-replicate-human-intelligence-yann-lecun\/\">skepticism <\/a>in recent times about whether LLMs can be scaled to achieve human-level intelligence. Meta, being so far behind in the AI game, might be in no mood to give him a long rope for pursuing such research which could take years to fructify. In addition, Chief Scientists at other labs have done quite well with their own startups &#8212; OpenAI&#8217;s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever has seen the valuation of his startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/ai\/meta-tried-to-acquire-ilya-sutskevers-ssi-but-was-rebuffed-report\/\">SSI<\/a>, zoom to $32 billion without releasing a product. And while LeCun might be leaving for greener pastures, it would be a loss for Meta &#8212; LeCun is a Turing award winner and considered one of the &#8216;godfathers&#8217; of AI, and his departure would mean that Meta would&#8217;ve lost the tallest AI leader from its ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has rejigged its AI division in recent months, and it appears to have meant the departure of its Chief AI Scientist. 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