Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

Turing award winner is in early talks to raise €500mn ahead of January launch

The prize of achieving so-called superintelligence outweighs the risks for Meta chief

The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up

Mark Zuckerberg is pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence

Meta has splashed out on star hires and infrastructure as it tries to make up ground in the artificial intelligence race

Stock rises 11% after-hours as profits and revenues beat Wall Street expectations