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See the full story · 1 sourcesYann LeCun Is One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI

Mark Zuckerberg called Yann LeCun one Sunday last November. Word had gotten out that LeCun, who built Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, was leaving to start his own venture. Zuckerberg urged him to stay. Good luck raising the money and good luck building a product the market would believe, LeCun recalls him saying. The following month, LeCun unveiled Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs. By March, it had raised $1.03 billion in seed funding—one of the largest rounds in history.
