Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987. A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. 🤯 >Meet Yan…

Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987. A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. 🤯 >Meet Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 >Paris-born. PhD from Sorbonne in 1987. >Joined Bell Labs in 1988. Kept building. Alone. >In 1989, built Convolutional Neural Networks >By the late 90s, his CNN was reading 10% of US bank checks >The industry called it a niche trick. Ignored him for over a decade. >Then 2012 hit. Deep learning exploded. >His “dead” research became the blueprint for everything > ChatGPT. Gemini. Claude. Grok. All standing on his shoulders. 🚀 >Won the 2018 Turing Award ~ computing’s Nobel Prize >Became Chief AI Scientist at Meta “Godfather of AI.” >Now publicly says LLMs are a dead end. >Fights the entire industry. >Left Meta in late 2025 to build AMI Labs in Paris >Already valued at $3.5B before launching. World models, not LLMs. The industry ignored him for over 20 years. Now he’s ignoring the industry. Absolute Legend 🐐

Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-05-02