AI godfather calls Meta AI boss Alexander Wang ‘inexperienced’
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Key Points:
- Yann Lecun, Meta's former chief AI scientist, criticized Meta's current AI chief Alexander Wang as "young" and "inexperienced," warning of a potential staff exodus from the company.
- Wang, who joined Meta in 2025 after the acquisition of a stake in his startup Scale AI, leads Meta's new AI research unit TBD Labs amid a fierce AI talent war.
- Lecun claimed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost confidence in the AI team following accusations of benchmark manipulation with the Llama 4 model, leading to the sidelining of the generative AI organization.
- Lecun expressed skepticism about large language models (LLMs), calling them a "dead end" for achieving superintelligence, and emphasized the importance
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