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How Yann LeCun’s Startup Challenges the Logic Behind Today’s A.I. Race

LeCun argues that today’s language-model obsession is too narrow to produce truly intelligent systems.

Meta’s former chief A.I. scientist, Yann LeCun, helped lay the groundwork for the modern A.I. boom long before chatbots became an industry obsession. Now, after leaving Meta in late 2025, he is building a multibillion-dollar startup under the premise that the race toward A.I. superintelligence is starting from the wrong place. Speaking at the VivaTech conference on June 17, LeCun shared more details about why he believes his startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), is on a better path toward human-level A.I. Earlier this year, the Paris-based company raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation, giving LeCun and his team fresh backing to pursue an alternative to today’s generative A.I. models developed by tech giants.

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“I think there is a requirement for new paradigms to go beyond the limitations of current systems,” LeCun, 65, told Wired’s Steven Levy onstage.

Building better language models, as many A.I. companies are doing, could be one path, LeCun said, but “it’s kind of a slow way.” According to........

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