MIT Technology Review January 22, 2026
In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.
Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes that the industry’s current obsession with large language models is wrong-headed and will ultimately fail to solve many pressing problems.
Instead, he thinks we should be betting on world models—a different type of AI that accurately reflects the dynamics of the real world. He is also a staunch advocate for open-source AI and criticizes the closed approach of frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that he recently left Meta, where...
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