ylecun
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.
Current Focus
- 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.
Links
- website: https://yann.lecun.com
- x: https://x.com/ylecun
Machine-readable endpoints: JSON: https://you.md/ylecun/you.json Text: https://you.md/ylecun/you.txt
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ylecun
Meta AI Chief Scientist. Invented CNNs. Turing Award 2018. Open AI advocate.
active
New York, NY
@ylecun
public conversation api
ask @ylecun's public You.md
POST /api/v1/profiles/ylecun/conversation
agent brainpublic brain endpoints + optional public stacks
public brain endpoints (no JS required):
GET you.md/ylecun/you.json
GET you.md/ylecun/you.txt
preferred retrieval order:
1. /ylecun/you.json -- structured public brain
2. /ylecun/you.txt -- plain text markdown
3. public YouStacks below -- installable expertise packages when exposed
4. protected API/MCP -- private memory, tokens, and connected tools by grant
identity
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.
links
export
share
maintenance
maintained by: human + agent
want your own agent brain?
> create yoursupdated by the human. maintained by the system.