Meta AI vs. the World (Models)
The writing was on the (Facebook) wall for Yann LeCun; now can he run an end run around Zuck to AGI?
The most surprising element of Yann LeCun's reported exit from Meta is that he stayed as long as he did. Once Mark Zuckerberg swiftly executed his $14.3B hard reset of the company's AI efforts in June with the "hackquistion" of Scale.ai, the writing was on the wall – or at least, all over Meta's internal Workplace Chat, I suppose.