ylecun

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Meta AI Chief Scientist. Invented CNNs. Turing Award 2018. Open AI advocate.

Location: New York, NY

Yann LeCun invented CNNs and demonstrated them for digit recognition at Bell Labs in the late 1980s. He won the Turing Award alongside Bengio and Hinton in 2018. He leads FAIR, Meta's AI research lab, and is one of AI's most prominent open-source advocates.

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ylecun

Meta AI Chief Scientist. Invented CNNs. Turing Award 2018. Open AI advocate.

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New York, NY

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Yann LeCun invented CNNs and demonstrated them for digit recognition at Bell Labs in the late 1980s. He won the Turing Award alongside Bengio and Hinton in 2018. He leads FAIR, Meta's AI research lab, and is one of AI's most prominent open-source advocates.

current activity

- World model research

- JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture)

- open-source AI advocacy

projects

Meta AI Research (FAIR)

Leading fundamental AI research including LLaMA, Segment Anything, ImageBind.

LLaMA

Meta's open-source large language model series — democratizing frontier AI access.

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