AI pioneer LeCun to leave Meta and start a new company focusing on "world models"

PANews November 12 News, according to U.S. media reports, Yann LeCun, a French-American scientist known as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” will leave Meta after working there for 12 years to start his own AI company. LeCun has long been known for his critical perspective, believing that the current industry hype around large language models (LLMs) is a form of “irrational obsession.”
He pointed out that the true path to surpassing human intelligence is not through chatbots, but through “world models”—AI systems capable of learning about the real world through video, spatial, and sensor data. LeCun emphasized that this physically grounded cognitive training is key to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
This view is also shared by former Stanford professor and “Godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li, who believes that the next frontier of AI is “spatial intelligence.” She argues that LLMs are “eloquent but lack experience” and therefore struggle to truly understand the world.