Artificial intelligence pioneer Yann LeCun said Wednesday he will be leaving his job as Meta's chief AI scientist at the end of the year.

LeCun said he will be forming a startup company to pursue research on advanced forms of AI that can "understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action sequences." He said Meta will partner with the new startup and that some of the research will overlap with Meta's commercial interests and some of it will not.

LeCun joined Facebook in 2013 and co-founded Meta's AI research division, formerly known as Facebook AI Research. LeCun stepped down as the group's director in 2018 but has remained Meta's chief AI scientist.

He's also a part-time professor at New York University, where has taught since 2003.

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