Europe should take greater risks and plough more money into artificial intelligence, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told AFP at the World Economic Forum.

Widely viewed as one of the "godfathers" of AI, he also judged as "a little unrealistic" a $500 billion AI bazooka announced by US President Donald Trump this week.

The major investment deal aims to build infrastructure for AI, led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Tesla and X chief Elon Musk as well as Anthropic head Dario Amodei have also expressed doubts about the plans.

"It is not clear that any entity has this amount of money to invest, even over five years," LeCun said in an interview on Thursday.

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