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Morning Edition · Monday, June 22, 2026
LeCun Calls xAI a 'Failure' and Warns of a Lab Bubble as He Exits Meta
The retiring Meta chief AI scientist points to cofounder departures and rented-out computing capacity as evidence that one of the better-funded labs is falling behind.
Yann LeCun, the departing Meta chief AI scientist, called Elon Musk's xAI "kind of a failure" and linked the judgment to talent. He argued that all of xAI's cofounders other than Musk have left, and that Musk's conduct toward earlier teams…
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