The launch of R1, an AI model by the Chinese startup DeepSeek, recently sent shockwaves through the technology world. R1 is a “reasoning” model—the most cutting-edge type of large language model (LLM) ...

Instead of building yet another LLM, LeCun is focused on something he sees as more broadly applicable. He wants AI to learn ...

Yann LeCun’s argues that there are limitations of chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting and large language model (LLM) reasoning. LeCun argues that these fundamental limitations will require an entirely ...

This week, I’m focusing on what AI pioneer Yann LeCun’s new company will likely build after he departs from Meta. I also look at Marc Andreessen’s jab at the Pope on X, and at “Fei-Fei Li’s” view of ...

For most of Silicon Valley, the future of artificial intelligence is simple: scale. If one large language model can summarise documents, write code, and spin out essays in seconds, then a bigger model ...