Yann LeCun
15 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 9 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2023 by Yann LeCun · said 60 times in 17 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (41), Steeve Morin (6), Rory O'Driscoll (6), Alex Lebrun (3), Douwe Kiela (2), Richard Socher (1), Jason Lemkin (1)
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2026 15 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 25 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Douwe Kiela: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size; Why Open Source Isn't Going to Win | E1032 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Yann LeCun, oldest first
May 15, 2023 negative
LeCun: AI hard takeoff fears are false; no real-world exponential lasts
“So this is predicated on an assumption that is just false, which is the existence of a hard takeoff. Right? So the fact that the minute you turn on a super intelligent AI system is going to take over the world. And it's going to escape your control and it's go…”
May 15, 2023 negative
May 15, 2023 bearish
May 15, 2023 bearish
LeCun: Autoregressive LLMs will be obsolete within a few years
“So my prediction is that within a few years, nobody in their right mind would use auto-reversive LLMs. They'll go away in favor of something more sophisticated and controllable. They can plan its answer as opposed to just produce one word after the other react…”
May 15, 2023
May 15, 2023 negative
May 15, 2023 bullish
LeCun: Public will reject proprietary AI and demand open-source infrastructure
“They would be so pervasive, so much will ride on, on those systems that I don't think anyone will accept that those assistant being behind Event Horizon in a private company, they will insist that the infrastructure is open.”
May 15, 2023 bullish
LeCun: AI will create as many jobs as it displaces
“No economist believes we're going to run out of jobs because no economist believes that we're going to run out of problems to solve or requirement for human creativity and human communication and stuff like that. So, you know, this is going to create as many j…”
May 15, 2023 negative
LeCun: The belief that smart AI desires dominance is a fantasy
“The second fallacy is that there is this idea somehow that the desire to, and the ability to dominate is linked with intelligence, right? So this is a statement that a lot of people are making, including, you know, my friend Jeff Hinton recently. That somehow,…”
Jun 19, 2023 negative
AI Existential Risk Warnings Are Driven by Publicity Seekers
“I fully agree with Jan and not just because he was my boss at Meta, but I think if you really understand how machine learning works and you're not looking for free publicity, I don't see why you would say something like that, that, that getting more intelligen…”
Jun 19, 2023 bullish
Lebrun: Open-source foundational AI models will win over closed models
“Open, obviously. You know, LLM are AI in general is an infrastructure in the future, and like every infrastructure, I'm just paraphrasing Jan, but is, is open. Open wins always with infrastructure. And so obviously I think the financial, the foundational model…”
Nov 24, 2023 bullish
Nov 24, 2023 bearish
Feb 24, 2025 bullish
Jan 22, 2026 bearish
O'Driscoll: Yann LeCun's $3B Non-LLM Venture Is A Scary, High-Risk Bet
“Now, Juan Lacoon raising, you know, money at three billion. And that's an example of I personally look at that and say, wow, that's a scary bet, because, you know, in somewhere between 2017 and 2022, we unlocked, collectively, the industry unlocked LLMs, and w…”