According to the Financial TimesThe Turing WinnerMeta Yann LeCu, chief artificial intelligence scientistYang LikunIt will leave Meta in the coming months and will prepare for the creation of a new AI start-up enterprise。
ACCORDING TO SOURCES, YANG LIQUN HAS BEGUN EARLY NEGOTIATIONS WITH POTENTIAL INVESTORS. IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT YANG LIQUON WILL CREATE A COMPANY FOCUSED ON THE WORLD MODEL (WORLD MODEL: AI SYSTEM DEVELOPS AN INTERNAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY LEARNING VIDEO AND SPATIAL DATA, RATHER THAN RELYING ENTIRELY ON TEXT)。
According to information received, Yang Liqun joined Facebook in 2013 and became the founding director of the Basic Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)。
And in June this year, Meta invested heavily in the data label company Scale AI, and Meta CEO Zuckerberg appointed his CEO Alexander Wang as the new leader of Meta's super-intelligence lab, resulting in a change in Yang Liqun's reporting structure。
Besides, Zuckerberg and Yang Liquon still have an AI strategy disagreement. The former moved to the rapid deployment of large language models and AI products, particularly the Llama 4 model in Meta, which failed to meet expectations, while the latter publicly expressed doubts about the large language models, arguing that they could never reach human levels of reasoning and planning。
I've also heard from ForbesMany former employees of Meta have said that the FAIR sector has been "slowly on the road to extinction" as the company has prioritized business-oriented AI teams rather than long-term research。