Yann LeCun Leaves Meta for New World Model Startup

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Jerome Cody

·12 months ago

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A few months back, every day had a new story about Zuckerberg luring additional AI scientists to his Superintelligence Squad. But plans change, and these days, the traffic seems to be moving in the opposite direction. According to the Financial Times, the company’s chief AI scientist, NYU professor Yann LeCun, plans to exit and launch his own AI project. LeCun’s reportedly in discussions about funding a startup that continues his work on “world models,” #Artificial Intelligence systems designed to simulate realistic environments, enhancing their understanding of cause-and-effect relationships. (World Labs and Google’s DeepMind division are both pursuing similar constructs.)

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Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup | TechCrunch

Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.

Bobby
Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing world models—which process images, video, and audio to approximate the physics of real-world environments—specifically for robotics, the person said. Both founders worked extensively on world models at Google DeepMind before leaving last fall. Hafner didn’t respond to a request for comment. Khosla Ventures, DST Global and Striker Venture Partners are also in talks to invest, according to the person with direct knowledge. Spokespeople from these firms, and Andreessen Horowitz, didn’t respond to requests for comment. Startups developing world models are seeing surging interest from investors, as some believe they could spur the development of highly-intelligent robots and self-driving vehicles. Elorian, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai that is also developing world models, was in talks in January to raise a seed round of around $50 million. theinformation.com/briefi..
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Exclusive: Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Raising $100 Million to Build ‘World Models’
Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing world models—which process images, video, and audio to approximate the physics of real-world

Cyril
Former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has raised more than $1 billion for his new AI startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, from investors that included Nvidia, Greycroft, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos. wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecu..
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Former Meta AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Raises Over $1 Billion for New Startup
Advanced Machine Intelligence seeks to develop a new breed of AI systems that can better understand the real world than existing models.

Todd Smith
LeWorldModel is credible, useful research....but not new in concept, not decisive, and nowhere near as revolutionary as the funding and press framing imply. medium.com/aiguys/lecuns-..
medium.com
LeCun’s world model is real, useful, and nowhere near as new as the funding round implies
A 15-million-parameter model trained on a single GPU just raised $3.5 billion. Here’s what the paper actually says, where the idea actually…

Tasia
A flood of Chinese entrepreneurs are rushing to start their own AI labs, mostly focused on models that can power robots and self-driving cars (theinformation.com/articl..). #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖
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