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Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

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760 points MindBreaker2605 | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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1zael ◴[12 Nov 25 08:02 UTC] No.45897500[source]▶
"These models aim to replicate human reasoning and understanding of the physical world, a project LeCun has said could take a decade to mature."

What an insane time horizon to define success. I suppose he easily can raise enough capital for that kind of runway.

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1. ahartmetz ◴[12 Nov 25 08:21 UTC] No.45897630[source]▶
A pretty short time horizon for actual research. Interesting to see it combined with the SV/VC world, though.
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2. whizzter ◴[12 Nov 25 08:45 UTC] No.45897821[source]▶
I suspect he sees a lot of scattered pieces of fundamental research outside of LLM's that he thinks could be integrated for a core within a year, the 10 years is to temper investors (that he can buy leeway for with his record) and fine tune and work out the kinks when actually integrating everything that might not have some obvious issues.