AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

Leading AI researcher Yan LeCun has a start-up which is developing a more flexible AI system.
The Business Standard

Current AI isn't truly intelligent, say experts, as focus shifts to next-generation systems

LeCun, who left Meta in 2025 to establish Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), said existing AI systems are not designed to deal with the complexity of the real world.

Godfather of AI blasts Musk's xAI as 'failure,' says labs are risking a 'big bubble explosion'

Yann LeCun's comments renew a long-running spat with Musk and cast doubt over valuations of some of the world's biggest AI companies.
Inc

Ex Meta AI Leader Raises $1 Billion to Build the System That He Says Can Do What LLMs Can’t

Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun just raised over $1 billion for his new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, or AMI Labs. He was driven by his belief that the top AI companies’ ...
Observer

How Yann LeCun’s Startup Challenges the Logic Behind Today’s A.I. Race

The Turing Award winner says A.I. needs broader foundations than just scaling text models. Yui Mok / POOL / AFP via Getty Images “I think there is a requirement for new paradigms to go beyond the ...
Memeburn

The "Godfather of AI" Says xAI Is Already Failing — and the Whole Industry Could Be Next

AI godfather Yann LeCun warns of an AI bubble explosion in 2026, calls xAI a failure, and bets $1B that large language models are a dead end. Here's what it means for you.
AOL

Yann LeCun's startup has a new CEO — and $1 billion

Yann LeCun's AI startup has raised more than $1 billion in seed funding and appointed a new CEO. In a post on X on Tuesday, entrepreneur and former Facebook researcher Alex LeBrun said he is joining ...

xAI a ‘failure’ due to leadership and talent challenges amid rising costs, says AI pioneer Yann LeCun

Elon Musk's xAI is a “failure” and may struggle to compete with leading artificial intelligence developers OpenAI and Anthropic, according to Yann LeCun, founder of AMI Labs and former Meta chief AI ...
The Financial Express

Why AI Godfather, Yann LeCun, is making a billion-dollar gamble to give AI common sense: Explained

"Don’t listen to CEOs," LeCun recently advised students. (Image: Courtesy YouTube/Nvidia Developer) Yann LeCun, who is hailed as the Godfather of AI, recently published a paper that changes the way AI ...
Digi Times

AMI Labs in talks for EUR3 billion valuation in effort to challenge dominant AI models

AMI Labs, an AI startup founded by former Meta scientist Yann LeCun, is negotiating a funding round that could value the company at around EUR3 billion (approx. US$3.52 billion). The company, which ...
Bloomberg on MSN

'Europe lost many races' says AMI Labs CEO

Europe has fallen behind on text-based AI - known as LLMs - AMI Labs CEO Alex LeBrun told BTV's Tom Mackenzie at Vivatech 2026 in Paris, France. But it could still pull ahead in the race for world ...
MIT Technology Review

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models

In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs. Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian ...