Meta AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Exits to Launch Advanced Machine Intelligence Startup

Nov 20, 2025 07:08 pm CST

Yann LeCun, renowned AI "godfather" and Meta's long-time AI research leader, announces departure to establish a new startup focused on Advanced Machine Intelligence. His new venture aims to develop AI systems that understand the physical world, maintain persistent memory, and can reason and plan complex actions - a direction that diverged from Meta's focus on large language models. Meta will partner with LeCun's startup while pursuing different AI strategies.