Meta Bets $14B on Kid Boss, AI Pioneer Calls It a 'Research-Free Zone'
KEY POINTS
- ā¢Yann LeCun criticized Alexandr Wang, Metaās new AI lead, for lacking practical research experience.
- ā¢Meta invested $14 billion in Scale AI and recruited Wang amid frustration over issues with the Llama 4 model.
- ā¢LeCun left Meta to start Advanced Machine Intelligence, choosing a visionary but disorganized and old CEO role.
In a plot twist stranger than a sci-fi script, Yann LeCun, formerly Meta's top AI scientist and now a humble startup visionary 'too old and disorganized to be CEO,' throws shade at Alexandr Wang, Metaās hired-gun AI wunderkind and Scale AI cofounder. Mark Zuckerberg bet $14 billion on Wang's Super Intelligence Lab after Llama 4ās reported benchmarking 'fudging' soured the bossās faith in his old AI squad. LeCun claimed Wang, only 28, is 'inexperienced' with how real AI research is done and called the new Meta AI team 'completely LLM-pilled'āa fancy way of saying zombies addicted to large language models. LeCun insists he's right, refuses to mince words, and notes even though Wang briefly outranked him, you just don't tell someone like LeCun what to do.
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Meta spends $14B hiring a 28-year-old without 'research experience' to lead AI. Yann LeCun calls it 'no clue, no plan' leadership. Meanwhile, Llama 4's fudged scores still haunt Zuckerberg's nightmares like a bad sequel nobody asked for.
When your $14 billion AI lab is run by a 28-year-old who doesnāt get research, you know science just threw up its hands.
LeCun's leaving Meta because telling a 28-year-old 'boss' to direct him is like explaining patience to a hyperactive Golden Retriever.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 1/2/2026 | Author: Brent D. Griffiths
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