Yann LeCun
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CNN pioneer, Meta's longtime chief scientist — the loyal opposition to LLM orthodoxy.
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LeCun invented convolutional networks' practical form (1989 digit recognition), shared the 2018 Turing Award, and built Meta's FAIR lab. He argues LLMs alone cannot reach human-level intelligence — world models and new architectures (JEPA) are needed — a stance that culminated in his 2025 departure from Meta to found a world-model startup.
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