Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987.
A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. đ€Ż
>Meet Yann LeCun đ«đ·
>Paris-born. PhD from Sorbonne in 1987.
>Joined Bell Labs in 1988. Kept building. Alone.
>In 1989, built Convolutional Neural Networks
>By the late 90s, his CNN was reading 10% of US bank checks
>The industry called it a niche trick. Ignored him for over a decade.
>Then 2012 hit. Deep learning exploded.
>His âdeadâ research became the blueprint for everything
> ChatGPT. Gemini. Claude. Grok. All standing on his shoulders. đ
>Won the 2018 Turing Award ~ computingâs Nobel Prize
>Became Chief AI Scientist at Meta âGodfather of AI.â
>Now publicly says LLMs are a dead end.
>Fights the entire industry.
>Left Meta in late 2025 to build AMI Labs in Paris
>Already valued at $3.5B before launching. World models, not LLMs.
The industry ignored him for over 20 years.
Now heâs ignoring the industry.
Absolute Legend đ
