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

This seems like a good thing for him to get to fully pursue his own ideas independent of Meta. Large incumbents aren’t usually the place for innovating anything far from mainstream considering the risk and cost of failure. The high level idea of JEPA is sound, but it takes a lot of work to get it trained well at scale before it has value to Meta.

In this case where more money / resources seemingly better results (at least right now) this might be a bit different than other fields.