Yann LeCun confirms he has left Meta to found AMI Labs
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Confirmed he has left Meta and founded AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs) — himself as Executive Chairman, Alex LeBrun as CEO
Why it matters
With an independent lab pursuing world models rather than LLMs, the landscape of the discourse split
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