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AI pioneer LeCun to leave Meta and start a new company focusing on "world models"
PANews November 12 News, according to U.S. media reports, Yann LeCun, a French-American scientist known as one of the "Godfathers of AI," will leave Meta after working there for 12 years to start his own AI company. LeCun has long been known for his critical perspective, considering the current industry hype around large language models (LLMs) as an "irrational obsession."
He pointed out that the true path to surpassing human intelligence is not through chatbots, but through "world models"—AI systems capable of learning about the real world through video, spatial, and sensor data. LeCun emphasized that this kind of cognition training based on the physical world is key to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
This view is also supported by former Stanford professor and "AI godmother" Fei-Fei Li, who believes that the next frontier of AI is "spatial intelligence." She argues that LLMs "are eloquent but lack experience," making it difficult for them to truly understand the world.

