Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun to Exit and Launch New AI Startup — What It Means for Meta, Open‑Source AI, and the Race to AGI (Nov. 11, 2025)
Meta’s longtime chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, is planning to leave the company to found a new artificial‑intelligence startup, according to reports published today. The move, which comes amid a sweeping reorganization of Meta’s AI efforts, would mark the most significant leadership change in Meta’s research ranks since the creation of its FAIR lab a decade ago. Reuters+1 Key facts at a glance Why LeCun matters Few researchers have shaped modern AI as profoundly as Yann LeCun. Alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, he helped propel deep learning from an academic curiosity to the engine behind image recognition, speech, and