Yann LeCun to Exit Meta After 12-Year Tenure
Yann LeCun has said he will be starting a company to continue the Advanced Machine Intelligence research programme
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Published: Nov 21, 2025 8:17 AM | 2 min read
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- Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, will leave the company after over 12 years to launch his own venture focused on Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) research.
- He will remain with Meta until the end of the year and has expressed pride in his role as the founding director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR).
- LeCun's new company aims to develop AI systems capable of understanding the physical world, storing long-term memory, reasoning, and planning complex tasks.
- Meta will partner with LeCun's new company, which is expected to have applications across various industries, some of which align with Meta's business interests.
French-American computer scientist Yann LeCun has announced that he will be leaving Meta after more than 12 years with the company.
LeCun, who has been serving as Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, is now preparing to launch his own company to continue working on the Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) research programme.
He will remain with Meta until the end of this year.
In a social media post, he shared:
“Many of you may have already heard through rumors or media reports that I plan to leave Meta after 12 wonderful years — 5 years as the founding director of FAIR and 7 years as Chief AI Scientist.”
He added that the work done by FAIR (Facebook AI Research) has had a major impact on Meta, the AI community, and the technology world. He described the creation of FAIR as his proudest achievement outside of technical work.
LeCun said he is starting a new company to continue developing the AMI program, a project he has been working on with colleagues at FAIR, NYU, and other institutions. The goal is to push AI to the next stage — building systems that can understand the physical world, store long-term memory, reason, and plan complex tasks.
He thanked Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Bosworth (Boz), Chris Cox, and Mike Schroepfer for supporting both FAIR and the AMI programme. He also revealed that Meta will partner with his new company.
According to LeCun, AMI will have wide applications across different industries — some aligned with Meta’s business interests, and many beyond. Operating AMI independently, he said, will help maximize its overall impact.
LeCun noted that more information about the new company will be shared later. For now, he will continue working at Meta until the year’s end.
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