Yann LeCun(@ylecun)

@AndrewCurran_ 🤬😡

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:34:24 GMT

@AndrewCurran_ 🤬😡

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@hosseeb @deanwball Soooo, releasing Linux was dumping? Apache, MySQL, PHP? HTTP, TCP/IP, OpenSSL,...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:22:22 GMT

@hosseeb@deanwball Soooo, releasing Linux was dumping? 
Apache, MySQL, PHP? 
HTTP, TCP/IP, OpenSSL, OpenSSH? 
Libjpeg, VLC?
The open source software stack of the mobile communication network?
Signal?
PyTorch?
Llama?

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@deanwball The "ungovernability" (and openness) of Linux and the Internet is precisely what has made...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:05:08 GMT

@deanwball The "ungovernability" (and openness) of Linux and the Internet is precisely what has made their success. 
The same will be true of open weight AI foundation models.

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Not a critique of the paper, but isn't inductive bias/ regularization the reason for every form of...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:16:30 GMT

Not a critique of the paper, but isn't inductive bias/ regularization the reason for *every* form of generalization?
Neural nets have a number of inductive biases due to the architecture as well as explicit or implicit regularizations.
The mere fact that weight magnitudes are limited (e.g. through regularization) makes the input-output function Lipschitz, which is the property you want to produce a smooth score function.

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Tired of winning

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:34:18 GMT

Tired of winning

Bill Madden@maddenifico

Trump's Beef Catastrophe: Incompetence, Blithering Idiocy, and Blatant Lies Have Obliterated America's Beef Industry

In yet another humiliating display of incompetence, the authoritarian Trump regime has turned America's once-mighty beef industry into a national punchline. After months of touting "record" export numbers as proof that his chaotic trade policies were somehow working, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been forced to admit it inflated beef export sales by a staggering 90 percent.

According to a bombshell Reuters report, the USDA bragged in early July that U.S. exporters had sold more than 126,000 metric tons of beef to foreign buyers for a sales period ending in late June. The actual number? Just 12,000 metric tons. That's not a rounding error. That's a catastrophic fabrication that would embarrass a high-school bookkeeper.

The fake numbers were so absurd they should have raised red flags immediately. The USDA claimed record sales of more than 38,000 metric tons to Chile and over 32,000 metric tons to Italy — countries that aren’t even major markets for American beef. Reality? A pathetic 367 tons to Chile and 350 tons to Italy. Fourteen other countries saw their numbers slashed as well.

This isn't just bureaucratic sloppiness. This is the Trump regime's signature brand of hype, lies, spin, and propaganda colliding with economic reality — and the American cattle industry is paying the price.

U.S. beef prices have hit record highs this year thanks to tight cattle supplies and strong domestic demand. Exports have been declining since 2022. Higher prices have priced American beef out of the global market, as commodity analyst Austin Schroeder bluntly told Reuters: "We're priced out of the world market to a certain extent. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for that big of an export number."

Meanwhile, domestic supplies are so low the U.S. has had to ramp up beef imports. Earlier this year, a screwworm outbreak forced Texas to declare a state of disaster, further hammering producers already squeezed by Trump-era chaos.

Instead of acknowledging the mess his administration created — from trade wars that disrupted markets to regulatory neglect that left ranchers vulnerable — Trump and his sycophants simply let the USDA pump out fantasy numbers and call it a win.

This is the same pattern we've seen across the board: brag about successes that don't exist, then quietly revise the data when caught. Only this time it's not some abstract economic indicator. It's the backbone of rural America — cattle ranchers, feedlot operators, processors, and exporters — watching their industry get trashed by incompetence and covered up with lies.

The revised numbers aren't just embarrassing, they're devastating. They confirm what ranchers have been screaming for months: America's beef sector is in serious trouble, and the people running the show are too busy tweeting victory to notice or care.

The only question left is how many more "record" numbers will have to be walked back due to Trump being a serial lying sociopath who is too psychologically fragile to handle the truth.

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Typical NYT understatement for what is an apocalyptic destruction of the American innovation ecosyst...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:26:27 GMT

Typical NYT understatement for what is an apocalyptic destruction of the American innovation ecosystem.

I can't understand how the Trump administration is doing this while boasting about American technology leadership. Don't they realize that a nation can't get technological innovations without scientists, and that scientists are former PhD students?

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@rednebmas @KenRoth https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:55:02 GMT

@rednebmas@KenRoththealliance.ai/projects/tapes…

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@KenRoth The biggest risk of AI is the concentration of power in a few dominant providers of proprie...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:20:27 GMT

@KenRoth The biggest risk of AI is the concentration of power in a few dominant providers of proprietary AI assistants. 
The only solution to AI sovereignty is open source foundation models.

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Super-fun in-depth discussion 🙏🙏🙏 World models, JEPA vs generative architectures, anti-collapse m...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:24:33 GMT

Super-fun in-depth discussion 🙏🙏🙏
World models, JEPA vs generative architectures, anti-collapse methods for JEPA SSL including contrastive, distillation, and information maximization methods, an explanation of SIGReg/LeJEPA/LeWM.
Plus some bits on AMI Labs, Project Tapestry, as well as Lisp and homoiconic languages 😅

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@ZhugeEX The median wealth of a French is almost twice the median wealth of an American. So much...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:59:40 GMT

@ZhugeEX The *median* wealth of a French is almost *twice* the median wealth of an American.
So much for the "Europoor" meme.

The *average* American wealth is high because a tiny number of Americans are absurdly rich. But most Americans get screwed.

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Tired of winning

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:47:30 GMT

Tired of winning

Steve Rattner@SteveRattner

Labor force participation has fallen to 61.5% — the lowest since 2021, erasing the entire post-pandemic recovery. 

Since Trump's inauguration, over a million people have left the job market — which explains part of the reason the unemployment rate dropped last month.

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It's not merely physical agents, it's anything that deals with something else than sequences of disc...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:30:27 GMT

It's not merely physical agents, it's anything that deals with something else than sequences of discrete symbols. 

Any data modality that is high-dimensional, continuous, and possibly noisy is completely out of reach of current generative models. 

That includes pretty much all real-world signals (aside from human language, computer languages and mathematics).

Furthermore, you can't have reliable agents unless they have the ability to predict the consequences of their actions and plan accordingly. LLMs simply don't.

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@elonmusk @Devon_Eriksen_ If there were any lingering doubts that you and your friends were against ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:25:25 GMT

@elonmusk@Devon_Eriksen_ If there were any lingering doubts that you and your friends were against the very principles of democracy, you just removed them.

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Yet we still don't have level-5 self-driving cars, and certainly not self-serving cars that can lear...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:15:21 GMT

Yet we still don't have level-5 self-driving cars, and certainly not self-serving cars that can learn to drive in a few hours of practice like any teenager. 
We don't even have domestic robots that can do what 10-year olds can do the first time we ask them. 
We don't even have robots that are nearly as smart as a house cat. 
The G in AGI is nonsense.

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Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years. The concentration of power in AI and...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:35:42 GMT

Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years. 

The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI. It could lead to a few private companies and/or countries being in control of access to information, access to knowledge, and access to the tools of economic expansion. 
It's a kind of medieval obscurantism akin to the Ottoman empire banning the use of the printing press for 200 years, in part to keep control of the dogma, but also to protect the corporation of the calligraphers and scribes.

Relevant historical bits about the Internet:
1. It took a deliberate decision by Al Gore and Bill Clinton to open up access of what was then ARPAnet to commercial entities and to the public, against the desires of the entrenched telecom industry. During a public roundtable about the "information superhighway" in 1993, the CEO of AT&T told Gore and Clinton "leave it to us". Gore said no.
2. In the late 1980s, setting up an Internet presence required buying proprietary hardware with proprietary OS and software stack from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, or Dell. By the 2000s, all of this was wiped out by commodity hardware, Linux, Apache, and an entirely free/open software stack. This migration to open platforms was the result of market forces.

Infrastructure wants to be open.
Foundation models are becoming an infrastructure and will inevitably become commoditized.
Long term, the money is in the application layer, which is what I, Arthur Mensch, Alex Karp, and others have been saying.

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@elonmusk More copious copium. Whether you like it or not, everyone thinks you're evil (except for a...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:25:07 GMT

@elonmusk More copious copium.
Whether you like it or not, everyone thinks you're evil (except for a few fanbois on this platform).

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Moving bits to and from memory. Because of parasitic capacitance+resistance of the wires. The bigger...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:34:08 GMT

Moving bits to and from memory.
Because of parasitic capacitance+resistance of the wires.
The bigger the memory, the longer the wires.
The main trick is to organize the memory hierarchically: registers, small on-chip SRAM, caches of various types, and external RAM.
It's all because we have to use hardware multiplexing: reusing the same multiply-accumulate unit for multiple parts of the network.

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@FukuyamaFrancis No, we don't. That's like saying in 1920 "we need an international treaty to ban ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:59:35 GMT

@FukuyamaFrancis No, we don't. 

That's like saying in 1920 "we need an international treaty to ban jet engines"

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Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:53:20 GMT

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@HarryStebbings The answer is Project Tapestry https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:57:50 GMT

@HarryStebbings The answer is Project Tapestry 
thealliance.ai/projects/tapes…

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1. Je n'ai jamais dit que les LLMs étaient inutiles ou n'avaient pas de valeur commerciale. 2. Mais...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:51:34 GMT

Je n'ai jamais dit que les LLMs étaient inutiles ou n'avaient pas de valeur commerciale. 
Mais beaucoup de technologies sont utiles et à haute valeur sans être particulièrement "intelligentes" 
Les LLMs sont essentiellement inutiles et sans grande valeur pour ce qui est du pilotage de processus industriels ou de compréhension de données continues, de haute dimension, et/ou bruitées. 
Il y a énormément d'applications de haute valeur dans le pilotage de processus industriels ou de compréhension de données continues, de haute dimension, et/ou bruitées. 
A long terme, l'intelligence, la compréhension du monde, et la capacité à planifier est ce qui compte vraiment.

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@ClementDelangue @Dan_Jeffries1 Everyone, please join Project Tapestry https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:54:31 GMT

@ClementDelangue@Dan_Jeffries1 Everyone, please join Project Tapestry 
thealliance.ai/projects/tapes…

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@JitendraMalikCV Exactly. Also, you can't act without the ability to predict the consequences of you...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:49:37 GMT

@JitendraMalikCV Exactly.
Also, you can't act without the ability to predict the consequences of your actions.
Also, VLAs are dead.

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@Dan_Jeffries1 Did some exponential-pilled bros finally realize that real-world processes have irred...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:50:35 GMT

@Dan_Jeffries1 Did some exponential-pilled bros finally realize that real-world processes have irreducible time constants and that you can't run the real world faster than real time?

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To be clear: there should not be a president of AI (let alone me 😅). Which is pretty much one point...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:34:31 GMT

To be clear: there should not be a president of AI (let alone me 😅).
Which is pretty much one point I make in the video.
This reminder is about the content of the video, which is 3 years old, but every more relevant.

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Reminder.

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:49 GMT

Reminder.

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Some billionaires (or their foundations) do fund certain areas of basic research. Examples: Simons ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:47:36 GMT

Some billionaires (or their foundations) do fund certain areas of basic research. 
Examples: Simons Foundation, Moore Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Keck Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, and several others.
But most of them are in biomedicine: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Wellcome Trust, and many others.
However, this is all small compared with federal funding:  around 25% of academic funding is from philanthropy, and over 50% from federal grants. This proportion is much lower in STEM than in biomedicine, and much lower in less prestigious universities.
So historical evidence that fundamental research can be helped, but not entirely funded, by philanthropic billionaires.

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Political appointees vetting science funding? Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:18:56 GMT

Political appointees vetting science funding?
Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previous administrations of doing.
But in previous administrations, there was no political control of research grant approvals.
Grant proposals were evaluated through peer review: the research community decided which proposals had merit.

Bye-bye Vannevar Bush, hello Trofim Lysenko.
Bye-bye meritocracy, hello political favoritism.

From The Guardian: "A set of sweeping policy changes unveiled by the White House would leave officials appointed by Donald Trump vetting every public grant issued to universities and nongovernmental  organizations on the basis of their fidelity to “American values”, as  defined by the president, triggering widespread concern."

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The incentives and time horizons are different for private and public research funding. Very, very f...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:20:36 GMT

The incentives and time horizons are different for private and public research funding.
Very, very few private outfits will fund fundamental research. Even fewer will fund PhD fellowships. 
Without PhD fellowships, no PhD graduates. 
Without PhD graduates, no new scientists. 
Without new scientists, no new discoveries, 
Without new discoveries, no innovation. 
No innovation, no economic growth.

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@DavidSacks If Trump really were "the most pro-innovation president we’ve ever had" he would not att...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:25:29 GMT

@DavidSacks If Trump really were "the most pro-innovation president we’ve ever had" he would not attempt to cut research budgets by half.

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I'm MAGA's twisted sense of reality and morality, a scientist who developed treatments and vaccines ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:41:55 GMT

I'm MAGA's twisted sense of reality and morality, a scientist who developed treatments and vaccines that have saved hundreds of thousands of lives (without getting rich from it) should be sent to Gitmo. 

"In addition to continuing work on vaccines already in clinical trials for hookworm as of 2010 and schistosomiasis, Hotez led a team of researchers developing vaccines against other diseases including leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, SARS, and MERS, As of 2020, he was also working in development of a Coronavirus vaccine. With Maria Elena Bottazzi, he led the team that designed COVID-19 vaccine named Corbevax." 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hot…

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@Pontifex Indeed, AI today does not do or possess any of those things. But at some point in the fut...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:21:09 GMT

@Pontifex Indeed, AI today does not do or possess any of those things. 
But at some point in the future they will. 

Except perhaps for the spiritual part.
Many humans aren't spiritual either, yet have empathy and are highly moral.

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@CSProfKGD Thanks, Kosta. Slide deck here: https://t.co/GetNmw87hS

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:12:13 GMT

@CSProfKGD Thanks, Kosta.
Slide deck here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1gHy1Te…

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@Nature NSF secretly blocking grants to Duke, Harvard, Yale, Princeton ... And they will call that ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:43:49 GMT

@Nature NSF secretly blocking grants to Duke, Harvard, Yale, Princeton ... 
And they will call that meritocracy 🙄🤬

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Major difference in my mind: - an engineer, given a problem, invents and tries multiple solutions a...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:05:42 GMT

Major difference in my mind: 
- an engineer, given a problem, invents and tries multiple solutions and stops when the solution is good enough. The goal is product innovation and shipping.
- a scientist asks new questions, proposes various new solutions, compares them (sometimes with old ones), and writes about it. The methodology must be sound or else peers will sneer. The goal is scientific breakthroughs and technological progress.

Both can be called "researchers". Many people can do both: these are activities, not identities.

Importantly, most product innovations are built on scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations that happened 2, 5, 10, or 20 years earlier.

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Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:30:01 GMT

youtu.be/l3m3RZNgDdw?si…

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Why?

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:19:10 GMT

Why?

The Wall Street Journal@WSJ

Most green-card applicants will need to go abroad to apply for permanent residency at an American consulate, rather than filing from within the U.S. as they do now, the Trump administration announced Friday. on.wsj.com/4v2Fqkr

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People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they h...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:46:31 GMT

People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities.
Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning abilities, by the accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.

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The salvation is Project Tapestry https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:46:50 GMT

The salvation is Project Tapestry
thealliance.ai/projects/tapes…

Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1

I don't think people understand just how bad it will be if an American open source champion doesn't emerge soon and the big labs succeed in creating modern East Indian companies and ban open models on moronic national security grounds.

"If a credible Western open frontier player does not emerge, the consequences cascade quickly.

This is the inverse of the early Internet wave. In the 2000s and 2010s, Western companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft — dominated globally while China carved out its own walled garden. 

"The AI version flips that dynamic on its head. 

"Without a credible Western open frontier player, the only open models capable of running entire economies are made in China. If U.S. policy further restricts Chinese open-weight access on national-security grounds, the U.S. ends up with two or three closed Cathedrals serving the U.S. market — and the rest of the world picks the AI stack that is free, capable, self-hostable, and not embargoed. 

"Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East. 

"Roughly six billion people. 

"Chinese open models become the global default by 2030, and the United States ends up technologically isolated from the majority of the world’s AI users. 

"We would have done it to ourselves."

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Tired of winning

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:32:39 GMT

Tired of winning

Dr. Catharine Young@DrCatharineY

American science is at extraordinary risk. 

NIH has awarded less than half as many grants as it has compared to the past five fiscal years averaged together. 

'I thought we were at rock bottom', the official said. 'We are below rock bottom now.'"

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Tired of winning

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:06:00 GMT

Tired of winning

Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students”

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Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:59:03 GMT

youtube.com/watch?v=ngBraL…

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Fun interview with Jacob Effron on the Unsupervised Learning podcast.

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:56:57 GMT

Fun interview with Jacob Effron on the Unsupervised Learning podcast.

Jacob Effron@jacobeffron

It’s hard to imagine more of a dream Unsupervised Learning guest than @ylecun. Yann is one of the godfathers of AI, and he has some fascinating contrarian views on the limitations of LLMs. It was incredible to get to have a wide-ranging discussion with Yann about these views, reflections on his time at Meta and departure and what’s next for him. We hit on:
▪️ LLM limitations and a path forward for robotics
▪️ Why he left Meta
▪️ How he came to so dramatically disagree with his Turing co-laureates Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio on LLMs
▪️ His predictions for 2027
▪️ His new company AMI and the bet on world models
▪️ Why he compares OpenAI and Anthropic to Sun Microsystems
▪️ Why he tells PhD students to stop working on LLMs

Plus some sharp views on the current safety discourse, how breakthrough research actually happens and what FAIR got right and wrong.

YouTube: youtu.be/ngBraLDqzdI
Spotify: bit.ly/4dL8fvT
Apple: bit.ly/4wxgpiX

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@eladgil BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:19:03 GMT

@eladgil BS. 
Attention was born in Montréal 
PyTorch in NYC.
AlphaGo in London
AlphaFold in London
ESMFold in NYC
Llama 1 in Paris. 
Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV
DeepSeek in Hangzhou

Plus:
DINO in Paris
JEPA in Montréal+Paris+NYC

SV is 3 mos ahead on topics SV is singularly obsessed with.

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Corruption, part N+1

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:06:14 GMT

Corruption, part N+1

Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump

Someone quietly placed a massive $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 a.m. ET this morning.

Just 70 minutes later, Axios reported the U.S. and Iran were close to a 14 point deal to end the war. Oil prices crashed, and someone made a fortune.

The golden age of corruption.

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Corruption, part N

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:06:01 GMT

Corruption, part N

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTC

Palm Beach International Airport is now officially renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. 

The airport will be required to purchase official Trump merchandise, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

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RFKjr == Lyssenko

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:17:41 GMT

RFKjr == Lyssenko

The New York Times@nytimes

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24

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This could have covered the entire budget of the National Science Foundation for 10 years. Instead...

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:44:38 GMT

This could have covered the entire budget of the National Science Foundation for 10 years. 

Instead, Trump wants to reduce the NSF budget by 50% ($5B a year instead of $9B), which would decimate the American scientific research ecosystem, dramatically reduce the number of PhD graduates, and destroy the technology innovation flywheel.

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Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:07:19 GMT

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Trump's war on science.

Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:05:29 GMT

Trump's war on science.

Max Kozlov@maxdkozlov

The Trump administration has downsized US science by historic margins — but it's not just via grant or workforce cuts.

Our new @nature analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across all major science agencies.

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@hosseeb @deanwball Soooo, releasing Linux was dumping? Apache, MySQL, PHP? HTTP, TCP/IP, OpenSSL,...

@deanwball The "ungovernability" (and openness) of Linux and the Internet is precisely what has made...

Not a critique of the paper, but isn't inductive bias/ regularization the reason for *every* form of...

Tired of winning

Typical NYT understatement for what is an apocalyptic destruction of the American innovation ecosyst...

@rednebmas @KenRoth https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

@KenRoth The biggest risk of AI is the concentration of power in a few dominant providers of proprie...

Super-fun in-depth discussion 🙏🙏🙏 World models, JEPA vs generative architectures, anti-collapse m...

@ZhugeEX The *median* wealth of a French is almost *twice* the median wealth of an American. So much...

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It's not merely physical agents, it's anything that deals with something else than sequences of disc...

@elonmusk @Devon_Eriksen_ If there were any lingering doubts that you and your friends were against ...

Yet we still don't have level-5 self-driving cars, and certainly not self-serving cars that can lear...

Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years. The concentration of power in AI and...

@elonmusk More copious copium. Whether you like it or not, everyone thinks you're evil (except for a...

Moving bits to and from memory. Because of parasitic capacitance+resistance of the wires. The bigger...

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@HarryStebbings The answer is Project Tapestry https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

1. Je n'ai jamais dit que les LLMs étaient inutiles ou n'avaient pas de valeur commerciale. 2. Mais...

@ClementDelangue @Dan_Jeffries1 Everyone, please join Project Tapestry https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

@JitendraMalikCV Exactly. Also, you can't act without the ability to predict the consequences of you...

@Dan_Jeffries1 Did some exponential-pilled bros finally realize that real-world processes have irred...

To be clear: there should not be a president of AI (let alone me 😅). Which is pretty much one point...

Reminder.

Some billionaires (or their foundations) do fund certain areas of basic research. Examples: Simons ...

Political appointees vetting science funding? Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previ...

The incentives and time horizons are different for private and public research funding. Very, very f...

@DavidSacks If Trump really were "the most pro-innovation president we’ve ever had" he would not att...

I'm MAGA's twisted sense of reality and morality, a scientist who developed treatments and vaccines ...

@Pontifex Indeed, AI today does not do or possess any of those things. But at some point in the fut...

@CSProfKGD Thanks, Kosta. Slide deck here: https://t.co/GetNmw87hS

@Nature NSF secretly blocking grants to Duke, Harvard, Yale, Princeton ... And they will call that ...

Major difference in my mind: - an engineer, given a problem, invents and tries multiple solutions a...

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Why?

People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they h...

The salvation is Project Tapestry https://t.co/5MOgouVplV

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Fun interview with Jacob Effron on the Unsupervised Learning podcast.

@eladgil BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ...

Corruption, part N+1

Corruption, part N

RFKjr == Lyssenko

This could have covered the entire budget of the National Science Foundation for 10 years. Instead...

https://t.co/cfwFhKL5Aw

Trump's war on science.

Not a critique of the paper, but isn't inductive bias/ regularization the reason for every form of...

@ZhugeEX The median wealth of a French is almost twice the median wealth of an American. So much...