Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
Yann LeCun
Researcher
Turing Award 2018
Turing laureate for convolutional networks. Ran Meta's FAIR lab from 2013 and spent his last years there arguing that language models are a dead end and that intelligence needs world models trained in latent space. Left Meta at the end of 2025 to found AMI Labs.
Known for Convolutional networks; JEPA; A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence (2022)
Argues for
World models Autonomous intelligence needs a learned world model that predicts in representation space, with planning on top; autoregressive text prediction is a dead end.
Works in
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Jan 2026 – nowAMI Labs, Founder and executive chairman; JEPASources Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's world model startup TechCrunch 2026-01-23 · Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world models TechCrunch 2026-03-09
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Dec 2013 – Dec 2025Meta, Chief AI scientist, FAIR