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Yann LeCun

@yannlecun
24 posts
2025-04-06
BOOM!  The Llama-4 brood is out.  — Scout: 16 experts, 17B each, 109B total parameters, 10M+ context window, can run on a single GPU.  — Maverick: multimodal, 128 experts, 17B each, 400B total parameters, 1M context window.  — preview of Behemoth: 16 experts, 288B each, 2T total parameters. …
2025-04-06 View on X
Meta

Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters

Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.

2025-03-18
One billion Llama downloads!
2025-03-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times since their 2023 debut, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024

In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads.

2025-02-03
8000 government websites taken down.  Data on public health, scientific research, medical research, crime....gone.  Taking down reliable sources of information to better disinform the public?
2025-02-03 View on X
Wired

A look at six engineers with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel ties, between 19 and 24 years old, playing key DOGE roles, as Musk seizes control of US infrastructure

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk's companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

2025-01-27
Major misunderstanding about AI infrastructure investments: Much of those billions are going into infrastructure for *inference*, not training.  Running AI assistant services for billions of people requires a lot of compute.  Once you put video understanding, reasoning, large-scale memory, and other capabilities in AI systems, inference costs are going to increase. …
2025-01-27 View on X
Financial Times

Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 17%+, TSM down 14%+, AMD down 6%+, ASML down 6%+, and MSFT down 3%+

Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment  —  Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances by Chinese artificial intelligence start …

Major misunderstanding about AI infrastructure investments: Much of those billions are going into infrastructure for *inference*, not training.  Running AI assistant services for billions of people requires a lot of compute.  Once you put video understanding, reasoning, large-scale memory, and other capabilities in AI systems, inference costs are going to increase. …
2025-01-27 View on X
Bloomberg

DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead

- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom  — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge

2024-11-20
Fortune has an excellent article on Meta's AI strategy and its focus on open source.  —  I'm quoted multiple times.  —  Free version: https://finance.yahoo.com/...  Paywalled Fortune version: https://fortune.com/...
2024-11-20 View on X
Fortune

How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google

Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.

2024-11-18
Musk: “we are for unfettered free speech, including freedom to disinform.  But purveyors of actual information we don't like will be prosecuted to oblivion.”
2024-11-18 View on X
Status

Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more

“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”

2024-10-13
An article in the Wall Street Journal in which I express my opinion on the limitations of LLMs and on the potential power of new architectures capable of understanding the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason and can plan: four features of intelligent behavior that LLMs are incapable of, but that your cat possesses …
2024-10-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCun, who says today's AI models aren't intelligent and warnings about AI's existential peril are “complete B.S.”

Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology's existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’

2024-07-24
💥BOOM 💥 Llama 3.1 is out 💥 405B, 70B, 8B versions.  Main takeaways: 1.  405B performance is on par with the best closed models.  2. Open/free weights and code, with a license that enables fine-tuning, distillation into other models, and deployment anywhere...
2024-07-24 View on X
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source AI” is the path forward, closed models are vulnerable to vendor lock-in and state-backed espionage, and more

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : You can find @zuck's full post here https://www.facebook.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Mark Zuckerberg has...

💥BOOM 💥 Llama 3.1 is out 💥 405B, 70B, 8B versions.  Main takeaways: 1.  405B performance is on par with the best closed models.  2. Open/free weights and code, with a license that enables fine-tuning, distillation into other models, and deployment anywhere...
2024-07-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta debuts Llama 3.1 405B, the “first frontier-level open source AI model”, as well as new Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models, and says it's working on Llama 4

2024-07-18
Where did you get that “a16z rails against Facebook”?  Marc Andreessen is on the board of Meta and is a huge supporter of Meta's open source stance.
2024-07-18 View on X
Vitalik Buterin

People in crypto should not choose political allegiances based on who claims to be “pro-crypto”, as such politicians might go against crypto's underlying goals

Over the last couple of years, “crypto” has become an increasingly important topic in political policy …

Where did you get that “a16z rails against Facebook”?  Marc Andreessen is on the board of Meta and is a huge supporter of Meta's open source stance.
2024-07-18 View on X
The Information

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say Trump is the right choice for “Little Tech”; sources say they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting his campaign

2024-07-17
Where did you get that “a16z rails against Facebook”?  Marc Andreessen is on the board of Meta and is a huge supporter of Meta's open source stance.
2024-07-17 View on X
The Information

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say Trump is the right choice for “Little Tech”; sources say they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting his campaign

Venture capital bigwigs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told staff at Andreessen Horowitz that they plan …

Where did you get that “a16z rails against Facebook”?  Marc Andreessen is on the board of Meta and is a huge supporter of Meta's open source stance.
2024-07-17 View on X
TechCrunch

On their podcast, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they are backing Trump, say Trump is pro-crypto, Biden's overregulation harms startups, and more

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he's been a Democrat most of his life.

2024-01-22
The mood in Davos: - everyone talks about AI. - almost no one talks about existential risks - everyone knows that open source AI platforms are a very good thing (everyone is using them). - people are worried about the potential of AI-generated fake videos in upcoming elections.
2024-01-22 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies

and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scient...

A great interview of Nick Clegg and me in El Païs about AI.  We discuss the limits of current technology, the necessity of building human-level AI assistants, and the regulation debates. https://english.elpais.com/...
2024-01-22 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies

and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scient...

2024-01-21
The mood in Davos: - everyone talks about AI. - almost no one talks about existential risks - everyone knows that open source AI platforms are a very good thing (everyone is using them). - people are worried about the potential of AI-generated fake videos in upcoming elections.
2024-01-21 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies

Finding common language with China will be difficult, European Commission official says  —  One of the many signs in Davos …

A great interview of Nick Clegg and me in El Païs about AI.  We discuss the limits of current technology, the necessity of building human-level AI assistants, and the regulation debates. https://english.elpais.com/...
2024-01-21 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies

Finding common language with China will be difficult, European Commission official says  —  One of the many signs in Davos …

2023-12-23
An interview of me in Wired with the unequaled Steven Levy.  “How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun” It'll take over the world.  It won't subjugate humans.  For Meta's chief AI scientist, both things are true.
2023-12-23 View on X
Wired

An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on open source AI, why AI danger is overhyped, whether AI could produce artistic work that has soul, more

It'll take over the world.  It won't subjugate humans.  For Meta's chief AI scientist, both things are true.  —  Do not preach doom to Yann LeCun.

2023-11-01
The debate is not about “for or against regulations.”  It's about whether open research in AI, open source AI code, and open access AI models should be regulated out of existence.  People's position on this depends on whether they believe the benefits of openness far outweigh the risks.
2023-11-01 View on X
CNBC

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta's Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture

Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that woul...