Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist Meta is leaving Mark Zuckerberg’s company

Some sources have reported that Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann Lecan is planning to leave the tech giant to start his own startup.

According to the Financial Times, Yann Lacan, who is now a professor at New York University, a senior meta researcher and winner of the prestigious Turing Award, plans to leave the company in the coming months. It is also said that he is in talks to raise funds for a startup that will focus on continuing his work on global models.

Yann Lacan wants to launch his own startup in the field of artificial intelligence

A global model is a type of artificial intelligence that develops an internal understanding of its environment in order to predict possible outcomes by simulating cause and effect scenarios. Prominent laboratories and startups such as Google DeepMind and World Labs are also developing such models.

Lacan’s departure from meta occurs in a very sensitive situation; Because the tech giant recently changed its approach to AI development to address concerns about falling behind competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Meta has restructured its artificial intelligence division and recruited more than 50 engineers and researchers from competitors to create a new unit called Meta Superintelligence Labs. The company also acquired artificial intelligence startup Scale AI in June for $14.3 billion.

Some sources have now said that these decisions have made the state of Meta’s AI unit increasingly chaotic; New talents feel frustrated with the company’s bureaucracy, and the scope of the old meta-generating AI team is also limited.

Lacan was skeptical of the idea that artificial intelligence technology is the cure for all human problems, and even stated in his personal X-Page that artificial intelligence systems still have a long way to go.