A major shake up appears to be taking place at Meta.

According to new reporting from the Financial Times, the company’s top AI scientist, Yann LeCun, is planning to leave his position there and start his own AI startup.

It’s a genuinely startling decision. LeCun, who joined Meta in 2013, is a towering figure in the AI industry. A Turing Award winner, the 65-year-old is considered to be one of the three so-called “godfathers” of modern AI for his pioneering work on neural networks, the tech that underpins the large language models used by much of the AI industry. As such, his presence at Meta has imbued the company’s often-struggling AI efforts with an aura of credibility.

LeCun’s departure comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has carried out sweeping changes to Meta’s approach to AI. Whereas be

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