Meta’s AI team might have just taken another major hit. The tech giant’s chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun , will be leaving Meta in the coming months to launch his own start-up, according to the Financial Times .

LeCun is a big deal in AI. As a Turing Award winner, the scientist is considered one of the leading figures in modern AI. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that LeCun is in early funding talks for a new venture.

The news, if true, is only the latest in a series of blows the tech giant has received in the past few months as it struggles to pan out its ambitious AI goals.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisioned a big AI turnaround story after admitting that the company had fallen behind peers in the AI race. That intended turnaround started earlier this

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