Yann LeCun Leaves Meta: The Godfather Bet Against LLMs and Lost the Room

Meta's chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner spent years arguing LLMs are a dead end. He might be right, but Meta's survival depends on them.

Nov 25, 2025

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The AI community is treating this like a funeral.

Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and founder of FAIR, announced that he is leaving Meta after 12 years. He’s one of the most influential figures in modern AI, a Turing Award winner who helped invent deep learning.

The 65-year-old will launch a startup focused on “world models”, a fundamentally differe…

Yann LeCun Leaves Meta: The Godfather Bet Against LLMs and Lost the Room

Meta's chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner spent years arguing LLMs are a dead end. He might be right, but Meta's survival depends on them.

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