Gary Marcus

Rank 21 of 47

Score 48

@kevinroose Um, maybe, but (and I say this as no friend of LeCun’s):

1. If Meta had made a billion times OpenAI’s cumulative profits to date (zero), it would not have affected their bottom line.

2. Meta has always had multiple AI research programs, applied and basic. LeCun may be an AI

5/27/2025, 6:23:52 PM

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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

16d

Between Apple and Meta, has there been a more expensive error in the past 10 years than hiring LLM skeptics to run your bigco AI research program?

Andrew Curran

@AndrewCurran_

16d

Axios is reporting that META's AI division is restructuring into two teams:
- AI Products (AI assistant cross platforms)
- AI Foundations (Llama development)
Yann LeCun's FAIR remains separate from both.

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