""tabula rasa with a carte blanche.""
""Money was clearly not going to be a problem,""
""We had a lot of new ideas and really cool stuff that they should implement. But they were just going for things that were essentially safe and proved,""
""When you do this, you fall behind.""
Yann LeCun departed Meta in November following a growing rift with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and tensions with younger executives. LeCun had operated with broad research freedom and prioritized open foundational work, insisting Llama be open source and free. Early Llama models influenced the industry and were embraced by researchers for their power and openness. Pressure to accelerate product-focused LLM development pushed teams toward safer, proven choices and contributed to the poorly received Llama 4 release. LeCun views current large language models as a dead end for achieving superintelligence and criticized the shift toward incremental, conservative approaches.
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