Before the term artificial intelligence was coined in 1955, there were glimmers of AI’s potential in folklore, fiction, and the early engineering feats of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These ...

Meta’s Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientist Yann LeCun last month addresses a speech as he attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. Photo: AFP Recent breakthroughs in ...

Yann LeCun, born on July 8 ... including applications in image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and autonomous vehicles. LeCun’s contributions to AI have been widely recognized.

New York University’s Yann LeCun has been selected as a winner of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering—one of seven recognized for contributions to the advancement of Modern Machine ...

Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, urges against overreacting, emphasizing that large investments in AI infrastructure are essential for inference capabilities as demand for sophisticated AI ...

You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: ‘Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones,’” Yann LeCun said in a LinkedIn post. “DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source ...

DeepSeek-R1 charts a new path for AI through explaining its own reasoning process. Why does this matter and how will it benefit the world?

That’s according to Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of AI who now works at Meta (one of the companies reportedly at panic stations over the release). In this Threads post, he lays out that theory.