Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner, left after Alexander Wang (Scale AI CEO) was hired as his boss. LeCun criticized Wang as inexperienced and told the Financial Times that some Llama 4 results were fudged, reportedly angering Mark Zuckerberg.
Now, if you're not Familiar with Yann LeCun, he's literally considered one of the godfathers of AI. He won the Turing Award back with Geoffrey Hinton and somehow Meta managed to get Yann LeCun on their team as the chief AI scientist. Recently, Meta they brought in Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang as their head of superintelligence, essentially making Alexander Yann LeCun's boss. Well, it didn't take long and Jan eventually left Meta to go start his own AI company. And, well, he's been doing the rounds of some podcasts and sharing what his thoughts are on Meta and Alexander Wang. In an interview with The Financial Times, LeCun said Wang was inexperienced and didn't fully understand AI researchers. So apparently Zuck was frustrated with LeCun because he was a little disappointed in the progress of their LLAMA models. In the interview, LeCun said that the AI team fudged some of the results of Llama 4. He went on to say Mark was really upset and basically lost confidence in everyone who was involved in this.
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