Yann LeCun

Meta Platforms, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says the tech industry won't close the gap to human-level intelligence by scaling today's large language models and piling on more parameters. What Happened: "We are not going to get to human-level AI by just scaling up LLMs. This...

Perplexity AI’s revenue and usage has grown 700% since the start of the year after the artificial-intelligence tech startup closed a new $250 million round of funding. The AI-powered search engine said it answered about 250 million questions in the last month, up from 500 million queries for...

Meta Platforms, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) AI chief Yann LeCun has defended the tech giant against social media users’ accusations of using misinformation as a business model to drive engagement. What Happened: Over the weekend, LeCun took to X, formerly Twitter, and once again...

Meta Platforms, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) AI chief Yann LeCun has proposed that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could leverage a new paper from Fundamenta AI Research or FAIR, a team at Meta, to enhance xAI’s Grok. What Happened: On Wednesday, LeCun took to X, formerly Twitter, and...

Meta Platforms, Inc.’s AI chief Yann LeCun looked back on his previous camaraderie with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, as many people on social media urged the tech behemoths to end this feud. What Happened: On Wednesday, LeCun shared a post from another user on X, formerly Twitter, which...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Meta Platforms Inc.’s AI chief Yann LeCun’s public spat that re-started on Monday, ignited once again the following day when the tech behemoths clashed over the definition of science. What Happened: On Tuesday, LeCun responded to a user...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk‘s efforts to attract AI professionals to his company, xAI, have been met with derision by Meta Platforms Inc.’s AI chief Yann LeCun, leading to a renewed clash between the two tech heavyweights. What Happened: On Monday, Musk took to X, formerly Twitter,...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, thinks it's "too early to worry" about regulating bleeding-edge technology like artificial intelligence, and xAI founder Elon Musk thinks it will happen regardless. What Happened: AI pioneer LeCun took to X, formerly Twitter, to express his...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) Chief AI Scientist, Yann LeCun, took to X, formerly Twitter, expressing his disagreement with OpenAI's early investor, Vinod Khosla. What Happened: LeCun thinks that Khosla is a proponent of closed-source AI due to his financial motivations. "Clearly @vkhosla can...

This week was buzzing with news from the tech and investment world. From Elon Musk’s mixed feelings about AI investment to Cathie Wood’s significant trades, there was no shortage of excitement. Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) gained favor among Redditors, while Mark Zuckerberg was notably...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has revealed the reason behind his CEO Mark Zuckerberg not being a part of President Joe Biden-led administration's new AI Safety Institute. This team does not include Tesla Inc. CEO and xAI founder Elon Musk, either. What Happened:...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist and “Godfather of AI” Yann LeCun has dismissed the possibility of creating an unbiased AI system. What Happened: Last week, in an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, LeCun discussed the concept of “...

AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Copilot and others can sometimes generate responses or output that is nonsensical. This is known as hallucination. While it does happen sometimes, not everyone knows the reason behind it. What Happened: Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, has been vocal about keeping artificial intelligence (AI) technology developments open source, and he has now explained why he thinks it will not be misused. What Happened: In an interview with Wired, LeCun outlined his thoughts...

Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) chief AI scientist Yann LeCun took a swipe at Sam Altman-led OpenAI, calling it a "contract research house" for Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). What Happened: LeCun criticized OpenAI in an interview with Wired, pointing at the fact that the Altman-led AI startup...