Yann LeCun leaves Meta to found AMI Labs, aims to build AI that understands the physical world
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Ben Morris
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Yann LeCun, a leading AI researcher who served as Meta's chief AI scientist for a decade, left in 2025 to found Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs). His mission is to develop AI systems that go beyond current large language models like ChatGPT and Claude, which he argues are fundamentally limited. LeCun believes today's AI lacks true understanding of the physical world — he notes that even a rat has better physical-world comprehension than our best robots. His new venture aims to build more flexible, adaptable AI architectures that can learn and reason more like biological intelligence.
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Hacker NewsYann LeCun leaves Meta to found AMI Labs, aims to build AI that understands the physical worldbbc.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledWe don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat
Current AI systems are not smart — they lack true understanding of how the world works
The future of AI requires fundamentally different architectures, not just scaling up existing models
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