Meta may be about to lose one of its most renowned AI heads: Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at the company, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, the Financial Times reported , citing anonymous sources.

LeCun, a professor at New York University, senior researcher at Meta, and winner of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award , plans to leave in the coming months, and is already in talks to raise capital for a startup that would focus on continuing his work on world models, the report added.

A world model is an AI system that develops an internal understanding of its environment so it can simulate cause-and-effect scenarios to predict outcomes. Top labs and startups like Google DeepMind and World Labs are also developing world models.

LeCun’s departure would come

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