PERSON · /yann-lecun
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Yann LeCun

Executive Chair of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs

French-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate known for foundational work on convolutional neural networks and deep learning. Served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta for over a decade before departing in November 2025. Founded Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025 to develop AI 'world models' that understand physical reality.