Meta’s AI Chief Scientist Yann LeCun set to exit, to launch new AI startup: Report

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is planning to leave the social-media behemoth to found his own start-up, as per a new report by the Financial Times. The news comes at a time when Mark Zuckerberg has been overhauling Meta’s AI efforts, with the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier in the year.

LeCun is a widely recognised luminary in the AI field and a Turing Award winner. He is also a Silver Professor of data science, neural science, and computer engineering at New York University.

He has reportedly told his associates that he will…