Yann LeCun
4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 29, 2025 by Ari Morcos · said 33 times in 14 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Moonlake: Interactive, Multimodal World Models — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun
- 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
- Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
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2025 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- [NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang et al, Princeton
- After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
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2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Morcos: Yann LeCun was never defining Meta's AI strategy
“I don't think he was ever you know, or at least not since the beginning in a role where he was defining AI strategy for Meta. I don't think that's the role he wanted at any point. You know, I think he really wanted to be doing that research, and I think, so I …”
Dec 6, 2025 positive
Apr 2, 2026 negative
Manning: Yann LeCun underestimates language and symbolic representations in intelligence
“Jan LeCun is a dear friend of mine but he has never appreciated the power of language in particular or symbolic representations in general. Yarn is a very visual thinker. He always wants to claim that he thinks visually, and there are no words, symbols, or mat…”
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Manning: Transformer internal weights can act as joint representations for world models
“I'm not actually convinced that's right, because although the token production is this autoregressive process that's heading, you know, left to right, I guess don't have to be left or right, but anyway, in sequence of tokens, we could have right to left Arabic…”