SMRTR Science & EngineeringJan 7, 2026Ars Technica

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: “Intelligence really is about learning”

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AI pioneer Yann LeCun is leaving Meta after over a decade to launch Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, driven by his belief that large language models are a "dead end" for achieving superintelligence. His new startup will focus on "world models" that learn from videos and spatial data to understand physics, rather than just language, aiming to create more capable AI systems within the next few years.

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