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Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Meta and a Turing Award winner, is planning to leave the company to establish his own startup focused on ‘world models,’ a new AI architecture. This move follows a series of leadership changes at Meta as the company attempts to revitalize its AI division amid stiff competition from rivals like OpenAI and Google. LeCun’s new venture will concentrate on developing AI systems that understand the physical world through video and spatial data, aiming to simulate cause-and-effect scenarios. LeCun is already in early discussions to secure funding for his startup, which he anticipates will take a decade to fully develop.