Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the most valuable companies on earth.
Elon Musk’s xAI is “kind of a failure” that will not be able to compete on the frontier with OpenAI and Anthropic, LeCun, the founder of AMI Labs and a former chief AI scientist at Meta, told CNBC.
His reasoning is about people. “The founding team has left, or was fired,” he said, conceding some uncertainty, and Musk now finds it “very, very difficult” to hire top AI talent “because he’s kind of, you know, not behaved in sort of very good ways” toward the previous team.
LeCun also took aim at xAI’s economics. The company has “huge infrastructure” it rents to others, he said, “because that’s the only way he can recoup the cost.”
The numbers behind the jab
