Yann Lecun
Mentioned in 47 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
A pioneering deep learning researcher and former Meta Chief AI Scientist, Lecun is widely discussed across AI podcasts for his foundational work on convolutional neural networks and his current advocacy for world models and energy-based approaches as alternatives to large language models for achieving AGI. He recently left Meta to found Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), which raised approximately $1 billion in funding, and has become a prominent skeptic of the current LLM-scaling paradigm in public discourse about AI's future direction.
Appears On
Episode Appearances
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Apr 2, 2026
Moonlake: Causal World Models should be Multimodal, Interactive, and Efficient — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun
“Philosophical counterpoint on vision-first approach vs. symbolic reasoning for world understanding”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Apr 1, 2026
Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
“Proponent of world models and energy-based models as alternative to LLM next-token prediction paradigm”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Mar 17, 2026
Meta Buys Moltbook, GPT 5.4, and Fruitfly Brain Upload | Moonshots Live at The Abundance Summit 238
“Raised $1 billion for European AI startup focused on world models and real-world understanding”
The a16z Show · Mar 17, 2026
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
“AI researcher whose work on causality and planning relates to Misra's AGI requirements”
AI + a16z · Mar 17, 2026
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
“AI researcher working on causality and planning approaches similar to Misra's ideas”
TBPN · Mar 11, 2026
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
“Raised funding for Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs at significant valuation”
TBPN · Mar 10, 2026
Nvidia Invests in Thinking Machines, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD F1 | Olivia Moore, David Paffenholz, Adam Goldstein, Max Junestrand, Allan McLennan, Jagdeep Singh, Scott Hickle
“Raised $1.03B for Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in one of largest European seed rounds”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Mar 10, 2026
The Debate Over Anthropic’s New Product: Price or Existential Dread?
“Former Meta AI chief founded AMI Labs which raised $1 billion for world model research”
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · Mar 3, 2026
"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard
“AI pioneer who worked on self-supervised learning and reviewed Howard's semi-supervised learning post”
Big Technology Podcast · Feb 20, 2026
OpenAI’s $100 Billion Funding Round, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
“Referenced for having different definition of AI intelligence compared to Sam Altman”
TBPN · Feb 19, 2026
The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
“Former head of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) before transition to MSL”
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat · Feb 12, 2026
Anthropic's Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’
“AI researcher cited for perspective that AI systems will simply follow human instructions without misalignment”
Proven Podcast · Feb 11, 2026
Google DeepMind Insider: You wont Survive the AI-First Economy, unless... - Steve Brown
“Inventor of convolutional AI technology originally used by postal service for handwriting recognition”
十字路口Crossing · Feb 8, 2026
Vibe Coding 下半场：四大天王，和想赢的人｜对话朱广翔：百度秒哒产品总经理
“深度学习先驱，其理论影响了朱广翔从计算生物学转向强化学习的决策”
Hard Fork · Feb 6, 2026
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
“Former Meta AI researcher; advocating for world models over pure LLMs as path to AGI”
Last Week in AI · Feb 6, 2026
#233 - Moltbot, Genie 3, Qwen3-Max-Thinking
“AI safety researcher; historically argued people won't give models internet access; criticized for optimism”
Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast · Jan 29, 2026
The 26 startups to watch in 2026 — plus cities, sectors and investors on the up
“Former Meta AI guru who founded AMI Labs startup”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Jan 28, 2026
🔬 Automating Science: World Models, Scientific Taste, Agent Loops — Andrew White
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 27, 2026
#193: AGI Talk at Davos, Amazon Layoffs, AI for Course Creation, OpenAI Cybersecurity Warning, New Claude Constitution & Credit-Based AI Pricing
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · Jan 25, 2026
VAEs Are Energy-Based Models? [Dr. Jeff Beck]
“Advocate of Joint Embedding Prediction Architectures (JEPA) and energy-based models; published monograph on energy-based models in 2006”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Jan 23, 2026
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay 2
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 22, 2026
#192: AI Answers - Responsible AI Adoption, Agency Transformation, Rethinking Workflows, Data Privacy, & Leadership in the Age of AI Agents
AI + a16z · Jan 20, 2026
How Should AI Be Regulated? Use vs. Development
Making Sense with Sam Harris · Jan 16, 2026
#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism
“AI researcher; cited as holding intuition that independently intelligent systems cannot form unanticipated goals”
The a16z Show · Jan 16, 2026
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Jan 12, 2026
AI's Most Dangerous Truth: We've Already Lost Control
“Godfather of AI; created scientist AI non-agentic model; advocates for alternative AI development approach”
Practical AI · Jan 9, 2026
2025 was the year of agents, what's coming in 2026?
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 6, 2026
#189: Is Claude AGI?, AI Change Management, Nvidia-Groq Deal, Meta Acquires Manus, Yann LeCun Speaks Out & OpenAI Preps AI Device
“Meta's Chief AI Scientist stepping down; launching AMI Labs; revealed Llama 4 was 'dud,' benchmarks were 'fudged,' and LLMs are 'dead end' for superintelligence”
TBPN · Jan 5, 2026
Dan Wang's Annual Letter, Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq Deal | Justin Mares
This Week in Tech (Audio) · Jan 5, 2026
TWiT 1065: AI Action Park - DeepSeek's mHC Model Training Breakthrough!
“AI researcher arguing LLMs are dead-end; advocating for world models and physical AI approaches”
Making Sense with Sam Harris · Dec 30, 2025
#450 — More From Sam: Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World
“AI researcher noted as outlier expressing lower concern about AI existential risks compared to industry consensus”
Dwarkesh Podcast · Dec 30, 2025
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
“AI researcher advocating for energy-based models and probabilistic AI as alternative to current LLM paradigm”
The a16z Show · Dec 30, 2025
Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run
AI + a16z · Dec 30, 2025
Feed Drop from The Generalist: Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run
BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley · Dec 23, 2025
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview
“AI researcher and founding father of deep learning; cited as skeptic of super-intelligence scaling approach, advocates different learning paradigm”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Dec 23, 2025
#188: AI Trends for 2026, Google DeepMind AI Predictions, Gemini 3 Flash, AI World Models & Are AI Job Losses Overblown?
“Recently left Meta; fundamental work on world models and physics simulation for AI development”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Dec 18, 2025
Creator of AI: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! These Jobs Won't Exist in 24 Months!
“AI pioneer and Bengio colleague; hired by Meta; involved in deep learning research”
Radiolab · Dec 12, 2025
The Alien in the Room
“Researcher at Google who developed attention mechanism and transformer architecture enabling modern large language models”
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Dec 8, 2025
Go All In on AI: The Economist’s Kenneth Cukier on AI's Experimentation Era
“One of three 'Godfathers of AI'; contributed to deep learning and convolutional neural networks; foundational AI researcher.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Nov 27, 2025
AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
“Major AI researcher and developer of deep learning techniques”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Nov 18, 2025
#180: GPT-5.1, AI That Brings Back the Dead, Beliefs vs. Truth in AI, First AI-Led Cyberattack & AI-Generated Song Tops Charts
“Meta AI researcher and Turing Award winner; reportedly leaving Meta to launch startup focused on world models instead of LLMs”
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Nov 17, 2025
AGI Is Here: AI Legend Peter Norvig on Why it Doesn't Matter Anymore
“Advocates for tearing down current AI approaches and starting over; contrasts with Norvig's evolutionary view”
Dwarkesh Podcast · Oct 17, 2025
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
“Created 1989 convolutional neural network that Karpathy reproduced to analyze progress components”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Sep 30, 2025
#170: How ChatGPT Is Used at Work, New GDPval Benchmark, AI “Workslop,” ChatGPT Pulse, Meta Vibes & More AI Economy Warnings
“Meta's AI research leader; built reputation for foundational AI research before Vibes launch”
NVIDIA AI Podcast · Jul 2, 2025
Alembic and the Future of AI in Marketing - Ep. 263
Big Technology Podcast · Mar 19, 2025
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
“Meta Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, main interview subject”
Acquired · Oct 28, 2024
Meta
“Recruited 2013 to start Facebook AI Research (FAIR); pioneering deep learning researcher”