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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu says exams are not a good way to judge talent; quotes Meta’s former most famous employee Yann LeCun

The Times of India 09 Feb 2026
... real world,” he wrote in the post.Sridhar Vembu quotes Yann LeCunIn his post, Sridhar Vembu quoted AI pioneer and Meta’s former chief AI scientist – Yann LeCun, who shared an example from mathematics.
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Meta's most-popular former employee Yann LeCun tells OpenAI VP: There is no way your company is achieving what it keeps on saying is its goal

The Times of India 05 Feb 2026
Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has publicly questioned OpenAI’s claims around achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) following a social media exchange with OpenAI vice president Sebastien Bubeck.
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Elon Musk makes fun of former Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun on robotics, ‘Godfather of AI’ responds: You know I can do it, I know how to do it…

The Times of India 28 Jan 2026
Elon Musk and former chief scientist of Meta AI, Yann LeCun, have once again engaged in an online feud ... You don't get reliable driving systems this way,” he said in a recent interview.Yann LeCun.
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Why Yann LeCun left Meta, and what it means for AI’s next frontier

Fast Company 28 Jan 2026
Yann LeCun’s departure from Meta after more than a decade shaping its AI research is not just another leadership change ... Who Yann LeCun is, and why it matters ... Yann LeCun’s departure is less an anomaly than a predictable consequence of that model.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei may have openly told Mark Zuckerberg from Davos stage that he was wrong to let godfather of AI Yann LeCun leave Meta

The Times of India 27 Jan 2026
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Amodei drew a pointed contrast between AI companies led by scientists and those run by 'the generation of entrepreneurs that did social media.' ...
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Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End

New York Times 26 Jan 2026
Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to creating intelligent machines ... .
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Tech's top CEOs mum after Minneapolis killings, while leaders like Reid Hoffman, Yann LeCun speak out

CNBC 26 Jan 2026
While a few leaders have voiced outrage, the tech sector has stayed widely silent after the second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month ... .
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Meta's most-famous former employee Yann LeCun on Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI: ‘They are stealing each other's engineers so that they can't afford…’

The Times of India 25 Jan 2026
Yann LeCun, former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the “Godfather of AI”, has crticised the Silicon Valley giants, describing the industry as “LLM-pilled” ... Yann LeCun clarifies why he quitHis comments came following his departure from Meta.
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AMI Labs: Yann LeCun’s Revolutionary $3.5B Bet on ‘World Models’ to Redefine AI

Bitcoin World 24 Jan 2026
In a move that has captivated the global artificial intelligence community, Turing Award winner Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs, a startup dedicated to building foundational ‘world models’ with a reported $3.5 billion valuation.
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Meta's former chief scientist Yann LeCun says he hated being a manager: 'I'm much more visionary'

Business Insider 23 Jan 2026
Yann LeCun said he can do management — but he doesn't like it ... Yann LeCun is clear on his life goals — and being a leader is not one of them ... LeCun will continue teaching at NYU.'No experience with research'.
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Nexar Appoints AI Pioneer Yann LeCun to Board as Physical AI Scales Beyond the Lab

PR Newswire 22 Jan 2026
roads, today announced the appointment of AI pioneer Yann LeCun to its Board of Directors, as physical AI systems—those that perceive, reason, and act in the real world—begin to scale beyond research environments and into safety-critical deployment.
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Computer scientist Yann LeCun: “Intelligence really is about learning”

Ars Technica 07 Jan 2026
I arrive 10 minutes ahead of schedule from an early morning Eurostar and see Yann LeCun is already waiting for me, nestled between two plastic Christmas trees in the nearly empty ...
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Meta's most-famous former employee Yann LeCun to everyone in the technology industry: Everything you know about and are working on AI is WRONG

The Times of India 07 Jan 2026
Meta’s former chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun has a message for everyone in the technology industry ... In an interview to Financial Times, Lecun said, 'LLMs are useful but fundamentally limited and constrained by language ... This clearly alienated LeCun.
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Yann LeCun: Meta ‘fudged a little bit’ when benchmark-testing Llama 4 model

Fast Company 06 Jan 2026
Yann LeCun, Meta’s outgoing chief AI scientist, says his employer tested its latest Llama model in a way that may have made the model look better than it really was ... Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher,” LeCun said.
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