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

From the outside, it always looked like they gave LeCun just barely enough compute for small scale experiments. They'd publish a promising new paper, show it works at a small scale, then not use it at all for any of their large AI runs.

I would have loved to see a VLM utilizing JEPA for example, but it simply never happened.

I'd be surprised if they didn't scale it up.

The obvious explanation is they have scaled it up, but it turned out to be total shite, like most new architectures.