Yann LeCun
Founder and chair, AMI Labs; professor, NYU · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Turing Award-winning pioneer of convolutional networks; left Meta (chief AI scientist) in late 2025 to found Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs and remains a prominent skeptic of LLM-only paths to AGI.
Role changes
- 2025-12 Left Meta to co-found Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs source
News mentioning Yann LeCun (3)
- OpenAI researchers claim GPT-5 'solved' 10 Erdős problems; the solutions were already in the literature ★★★
In mid-October 2025 OpenAI's Kevin Weil tweeted that GPT-5 'found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems'. Thomas Bloom, who runs erdosproblems.com, called this 'a dramatic misrepresentation': GPT-5 had found existing papers solving problems listed as open only because he did not…
- Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning ★★★
The ACM awarded the 2018 A.M. Turing Award to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, the 'godfathers of deep learning', for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
- LeCun applies backprop-trained convolutional nets to handwritten digits (LeNet) ★★★★
Yann LeCun and colleagues trained a convolutional neural network with backpropagation to read handwritten ZIP codes, the lineage that became LeNet-5 and was deployed to read cheques.
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- Gemini 4 Argon explained in 5min.. Caleb Writes Code · 2026-10-01
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