According to the Financial Times, Yann LeCun, Meta's leading artificial intelligence scientist, is planning to leave the company to establish his own AI startup.
This is a major turning point for what is considered the father of deep learning and is one of the three figures who laid the first foundation for modern artificial intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.
The report said LeCun is in the process of negotiating capital mobilization for the new project. Although not yet revealed details, the technology world predicts that this could be a different breakthrough direction compared to the current race for large language models (LLM), a field in which he has been skeptical about for many years.
Meanwhile, Meta, the owners of Facebook and Instagram, is steadily increasing its investment in AI. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently restructured the entire research field under the name Superintelligence Labs, and invited Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, to take on the leadership role.
Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is Meta's new AI unit, founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in mid-2025 to merge all AI research groups. This unit aims to develop Superintelligence, an AI system capable of thinking and learning beyond humans.
Joining Meta in 2013, LeCun is the founder of Facebook AI Research (FAIR), the foundation for deep learning technology in Meta's products.
He is also a Silver Professor at New York University, famous for inventing the Congvolutional Neural Network, a technology applied in image, video and voice recognition.
With fundamental contributions, LeCun, Hinton and Bengio won the ACM A.M. award. Turing 2018, is considered the "Nobel of the computer industry".
