The LeCun Bet
A billion dollars on a single question: does the order in which a machine learns determine how well it understands?
In November 2025, Yann LeCun posted a short message on LinkedIn confirming what had been rumored for weeks. After twelve years at Meta, five as founding director of FAIR and seven as chief AI scientist, he was leaving to start his own company. The post was gracious. He thanked Zuckerberg, Bosworth, Cox, Schroepfer. He announced that Meta would partner w…
