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Yann LeCun demoted

August 21, 2025 View original thread

Yann LeCun demoted

Meta Superintelligence did a massive reorg resulting in Yann reporting directly to Alexander Wang

4 teams: research, product, training and infrastructure

FAIR plays an active role, funneling research into the org

www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-supe...

www.businessinsider.com

'Superintelligence is coming:' Read the full memo Alexandr Wang sent about Meta's massive AI shake-up

Meta's reorg splits AI operations into training, research, products, and infrastructure teams, as part of its goal achieving superintelligence.

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expect turnover

That's a more active role for FAIR than before. FAIR is known for publishing higher-level Al research and giving its employees a level of independence similar to academia.
In the past, there was relatively little transfer between FAIR and Meta's generative Al division, but that seems to be changing now, a FAIR employee who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation told Business Insider.

the llama 4 team officially dissolved

As part of the reorganization, Meta is dissolving the AGI Foundations team, Wang's memo said, which it created back in May.
That's the second time Meta has closed a major Al unit this year. AGI Foundations was born out of the GenAI division, which spearheaded Meta's Llama AI models but was then itself dissolved after Meta's most
recent Al model, Llama 4, received a lukewarm reception.

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