Meta’s AI shake-up is backfiring, says one of the company’s former leaders. Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist known as a “godfather of AI,” called the company’s new 29-year-old AI boss, Alexandr Wang, “young” and “inexperienced” in an interview with the Financial times.
Wang became LeCun’s manager after Meta invested $15 billion in his startup Scale AI. LeCun revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg “basically sidelined the entire GenAI organization” after Llama 4 flopped and the team was accused of rigging benchmarks.
“A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven’t left yet will leave,” he said. The new hires are “completely LLM pilled,” LeCun added, saying LLMs are “a dead end when it comes to superintelligence.”
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Meta’s AI shake-up is backfiring, says one of the company’s former leaders. Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist known as a “godfather of AI,” called the company’s new 29-year-old AI boss, Alexandr Wang, “young” and “inexperienced” in an interview with the Financial times.
Wang became LeCun’s manager after Meta invested $15 billion in his startup Scale AI. LeCun revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg “basically sidelined the entire GenAI organization” after Llama 4 flopped and the team was accused of rigging benchmarks.
“A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven’t left yet will leave,” he said. The new hires are “completely LLM pilled,” LeCun added, saying LLMs are “a dead end when it comes to superintelligence.”
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