The AI community has lived by a simple creed: bigger is better. OpenAI's groundbreaking 2020 paper, "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models," led the charge by implying that model performance ...

Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Slams AI Hype: 'Scaling Systems More' Won't Make Them Smarter – 'We Need AI That Understands The World' Casey B. Renner Sun, May 4, 2025, 11:37 AM 3 min read ...

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, pushed back against "scaling laws." These laws say that the bigger AI models are, the more high-performing and smarter they will be. "It's not just about ...

in 2014 with Yann LeCun, who currently serves as the chief AI scientist at Meta. The unit is tasked with Meta’s longer-term AI research, including helping create models that help advance ...

But even then, the industry would need years to develop it. Yann LeCun, the chief A.I. scientist at Meta, has dreamed of building what we now call A.G.I. since he saw “2001: A Space Odyssey ...

Also participating in the new investment round were former Google CEO turned prominent Silicon Valley investor Eric Schmidt; AI “godfather” Yann LeCun, who is Meta’s chief AI scientist ...