Yan Le Cun, the former head of AI over at Meta, has a left meta, and he is shooting darts

in reverse as he's leaving lighting the place on fire. He's going off to his own new startup,

but he has not slowed down his criticism of meta and the team over there on his way out,

which doesn't bode well for

basically what's coming out. And Zuckerberg does not appear to be very happy about this. So today

on the podcast, I'm breaking down what he has said, what he's off to next. And some of the

criticism and some of the struggles that meta AI is going to have going into 2026 with this

whole situation. Before we get into that, if you want to try any of the AI models that I talk about on the show, including all of the MetaLama models, including everything from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, GROC, you know, over 40 different models, go check out AIbox.a.i. You can build no-code tools. We have a playground where you can just use all of the different AI models.

You don't have to have subscriptions to all of the different platforms. Go check it out, AIbox.com. I'll leave a link in the description. All right. Let's talk about what's going on with Meta AI right now. There was a big interview basically done by the Financial Times. they were talking to Yan Lekun, who is met as former chief AI scientist.

He had a very, you could say, blistering. by the financial times. They were talking to Yan Lecon, who is met as former chief AI scientist.

He had a very, you could say, blistering account of his last few months over there. The company,

he said one of the most shocking things is that meta manipulated the benchmarks for their top

flagship model, Lama 4, and he criticized their new leadership. He said that large

language models as a technology are a dead end. There is a lot to unpack here. So who is he,

I guess, just for like a little bit of context. He's definitely one of the most influential researchers

of AI. He's kind of known as the godfather of deep learning. He left

meta late in 2025. He was there for over a decade. And he's now launching a new startup,

which is called Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs. And he's super excited, apparently, to talk about

why he left Meta. So one of the big things, I think, at the center of all of the follow is Lama 4, which is Meta's flagship language model. It was released in April last year. So, I mean, theoretically, they should have something new coming soon. But Le Cun acknowledged that the model's benchmarks were actually, like, they basically fudged the numbers on it. He said, quote, results were fudged a little bit.

He then said that META used different model variants across benchmarks to inflate the

performance, basically using whatever was the best number and calling that the final number.

When this was discovered, apparently Mark Zuckerberg was not very happy.

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