Yann LeCun thinks the whole industry is building the wrong thing, and now he has $1B to prove it

LeCun left Meta, started AMI Labs, and is betting world models beat LLMs for real AI. Here's what that actually means, what the research shows, and why it matters for where AI tooling goes next. Quick context if you haven't been following: Yann LeCun is one of the three "godfathers of deep learning" (the Turing Award crew alongside Hinton and Bengio), spent 12 years running Meta's AI research lab FAIR, and has been publicly, loudly skeptical of LLMs basically the entire time they became the domi