Tech giant Meta is experiencing vital moments in its future. On the one hand, its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been wanting to change the direction of artificial intelligence (AI) in the company for months, while on the other hand, the head of the laboratory in this … Yan Lecun, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, plans to leave the company to found his own startup, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
According to information provided by the British newspaper, the French-American scientist told his colleagues that he would leave for dead in the coming months with the intention of establishing his startup company, in which he is already involved. Active search for funding.
Yan Licon is considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence. He won the most important Turing Award in this sector, and in 2022 he received, along with other scientists, the Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research. LeCun has headed the Meta Laboratory for Fundamental Research in Artificial Intelligence (Fair) since 2013.
The past few months have been turbulent in the Meta AI area, which has seen the creation of the TBD Lab, within a new area called the Meta Superintelligence Lab, for which they implemented Recruitment is widespreadwhile on the other hand they are planning to lay off more than half a thousand employees in the field of artificial intelligence, although none of them affected TBD Lab.
Zuckerberg considered that his competitors were superior to him in the artificial intelligence race, which prompted him this summer to undertake a hiring wave from major companies and establish the TBD laboratory, in which he was employed. Alexander Wang As Director of Artificial Intelligence and the New Field of Superintelligence. Wang is the former CEO of data classification startup Scale AI, which was recently acquired by Meta for $14.3 billion.
Thus, a week ago, Wang justified cutting 600 AI jobs as a measure to improve operations and “address” the problem. “Regulatory overreach” After recruitment.
All of this has led to more pressing projects being committed to and LeCun, who previously reported to product manager Chris Cox, now having to report to Wang, according to the Financial Times.
Last Friday, Meta announced an investment worth $600,000 million (518,531 million euros) over the next three years to support the spread of artificial intelligence. As Facebook President and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reported through a post on his social network “Threads,” the initiative was announced after President Donald Trump was notified. However, it is also “very likely” that more money will be allocated than initially planned.
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