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

He probably wants it to be successful, so that would be a foolish move

Some of the best AI researchers and labs have been from the EU (DeepMind, Alan Turing Institute, Mistral, et al.). We in the US have mature capital markets and stupid easy access to capital, of course, but EU still punches well above its weight when it comes to deep, fundamental AI research.

To be fair, I believe Mistrals' researchers were educated by Meta.