Yann LeCun
Executive chairman & co-founder, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs
The former Meta chief AI scientist co-founded AMI Labs in Paris to build world-model AI, and it raised $1.03 billion in a seed round.
- Born
- 1960-07-08, Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France
- Now
- Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs
- Studied
- Pierre and Marie Curie University, ESIEE Paris
Interesting facts
- Early start
Proposed an early form of backpropagation, the method used to train neural networks, as part of his PhD in Paris.
en.wikipedia.org - First
From 1988 at Bell Labs he led the development of LeNet, convolutional neural networks built to read handwritten characters.
en.wikipedia.org - Side project
Co-created DjVu, an image compression format for scanned documents, with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
His Paris startup AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation in March 2026, reported as Europe's largest seed round.
techcrunch.com - Turning point
Left Meta in late 2025 after arguing that the industry's focus on large language models would reach a dead end.
en.wikipedia.org - In their words
Stopped posting on X in December 2024, saying it had become an antagonistic propaganda tool.
yann.lecun.com
Career
- Advanced Machine Intelligence LabsCo-founder and Executive Chairman2025 to now
- MetaVP and Chief AI Scientist, FAIR2013–2025
- New York UniversityJacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institutefrom 2003
- MuseAmiCo-founder and Chief Scientist2007–2016
- NEC Research InstituteFellow2002–2003
- AT&TDepartment Head, Bell Labs / AT&T Labs Research1988–2002
Education
- PhD, Computer science, Pierre and Marie Curie University, 1987
- Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Electrical engineering, ESIEE Paris, 1983
