This week we unpack a growing split inside the AI world, centred on Yann LeCun — Meta’s AI pioneer who thinks LLMs are a dead end.

Reports suggest he’s preparing to walk, after being quietly sidelined under Meta’s “superintelligence” push and made subordinate to a 28-year-old ex-data-labelling kingpin, Alexander Wang. His alternative is the “world model” approach: systems grounded in physics and perception rather than predictive text.

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This week we unpack a growing split inside the AI world, centred on Yann LeCun &mdash; Meta&rsquo;s AI pioneer who thinks LLMs are a dead end.
Reports suggest he&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/yann-lecun-leave-meta-form-new-ai-startup?rc=c7wzrx">preparing to walk</a>, after being quietly sidelined under Meta&rsquo;s &ldquo;superintelligence&rdquo; push and made subordinate to a 28-year-old ex-data-labelling kingpin, Alexander Wang. His alternative is the &ldquo;world model&rdquo; approach: systems grounded in physics and perception rather than predictive text.
LET'S GOOOOOOOO.

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