Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun intends to leave the company to launch his own start-up, FT’s Melissa Heikkila, Hannah Murphy and Stephen Morris report, citing people familiar with the conversations. The departure of LeCun, who headed Meta‘s Fundamental AI Research Lab since 2013, comes as CEO Zuckerberg plans to shake up its AI strategy in order to challenge rivals such as OpenAI and Google in developing more powerful forms of AI, the report states.
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