Yann LeCun's Billion-Dollar Bet: Leaves Meta to Build JEPA-Based AI Startup

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Yann LeCun departed Meta as Chief AI Scientist to launch an AI startup focused on his Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA), betting that the next leap in AI comes from world models rather than scaling language. LeCun reportedly took shots at his Meta replacement, calling them 'young' and 'inexperienced.' The move puts one of AI's three 'godfathers' in direct competition with the transformer-scaling consensus held by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.