Meta’s ‘godfather of AI’ departs the company to form his own startup — Turing award winner Yann LeCun advocates for the development of World Models over LLMs

The 12-year Meta veteran and chief AI scientist, Yann LeCunn, may be leaving Meta in the near future to set up his own AI venture, according to associates. He’s reportedly keen to develop his “world model,” AI concept that learns from video and spatial data rather than text, like the current-generation of large language models.