Person
Yann LeCun
Named in AI Lately's reporting below.
In the archive
Hiring & Talent
Meta Superintelligence Labs: The Raid and the Reckoning
Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman and Shengjia Zhao built Meta's superintelligence unit in a single summer of nine-figure offers and then spent a year restructuring around the researchers who stayed.
Hiring & Talent
The Founder-Scientist Labs
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence and a cluster of scientist-led startups command double-digit-billion valuations before shipping a product, and the same pay war running through Big Tech now reaches their founding teams too.
Research
World Models and the Next Paradigm
Yann LeCun quit Meta and raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs, Fei-Fei Li shipped Marble, and four Google veterans launched Discovery Loop, together signaling that the field's next scaling bet runs through physical understanding, a wager bigger than another round of chatbot scaling.
Enterprise Adoption
Alexandr Wang Bet Meta on Perception, and Muse Is the Test
A clip of Meta's AI chief saying perception beats reality drew 260,505 views this week. Wang said it in December 2024, while he ran Scale AI, and Meta's Muse launch now puts the idea to a market test.
Capital & Markets
Musk Jabs Anthropic and LeCun in the Same Night
Musk mocked Anthropic's new fund and Yann LeCun's rocket math on the same night.
Safety & Security
Musk Fears Future AI as Fraud Costs Billions
Musk warns a future superintelligence could persuade anyone in one try, while fraud already cost older Americans $7.7 billion last year.