Yann LeCun

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Do LLMs Understand? AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Spars with DeepMind’s Adam Brown.

Dec 12, 2025

To cut through the noise around AI, we brought in two experts shaping the field: Adam Brown and Yann LeCun.

For the latest episode of Scientific Controversies, computer science pioneer Yann LeCun and Google DeepMind research lead Adam Brown joined our Director of Sciences Janna Levin in conversation. A Turing Award winner, Yann Lecun is the chief architect behind deep learning and convolutional neural networks. Adam Brown is a research scientist and group lead on Gemini, Google DeepMind’s large language model, and has helped drive the astonishing progress of these AI systems as they have evolved from babbling preschoolers to International Math Olympiad gold medallists.

Together, the trio explored how machines do what they’re doing, and if they’re actually able to think.

 

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Article "Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’"
The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up

January 2, 2026

 

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Article "Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models"
In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

by Caiwei Chen
January 22, 2026