‘They are stealing each other’s engineers’: Yann LeCun on Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI

AI pioneer Yann LeCun criticizes Silicon Valley’s obsession with Large Language Models, calling the industry “LLM-pilled.” He argues this focus stifles innovation as tech giants poach engineers, preventing diverse research. LeCun believes true artificial intelligence requires predictive “world models,” a key reason for his departure from Meta to pursue this vision.