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title: "Hyperbolic co-founder interprets Yang Likun's departure: Mark Zuckerberg's patience has run out"
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description: "Hyperbolic co-founder and CTO Jin Yuchen stated that the departure of Meta's chief AI scientist Yang Likun was inevitable, reflecting CEO Mark Zuckerberg's shift in AI leadership and impatience with Yang Likun's long-term approach. Jin Yuchen mentioned that after Zuckerberg acquired Alexander Wang's company, Yang Likun's space was compressed, ultimately leading to his departure. Jin Yuchen also hinted that Zuckerberg might rehire Yang Likun at a high price"
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# Hyperbolic co-founder interprets Yang Likun's departure: Mark Zuckerberg's patience has run out

Yuchen Jin, co-founder and CTO of Hyperbolic, stated on Tuesday that the decision of Meta's chief AI scientist, Li Kun Yang, to leave the company was inevitable, indicating that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's bet on Alexander Wang and the shift in AI leadership left little room for the long-time chief scientist.

In a post on social platform X, Jin wrote that Yang's departure was the inevitable result after Zuckerberg spent $15 billion to acquire Wang's company and had "Li Kun Yang report to him."

He added that after the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Zuckerberg became somewhat panicked as Meta's own large language model, Llama 4, failed to achieve similar success.

According to Jin, Zuckerberg grew increasingly impatient with Yang's long-term approach to AI research, ultimately leading to Yang's departure.

"Li Kun Yang never believed in LLM to AGI. Zuckerberg's patience ran out," Jin said, referring to Yang's skepticism about large language models as a foundation for achieving artificial general intelligence.

Jin suggested the possibility that in the future "Zuckerberg might buy back Li Kun Yang at a crazy price," comparing this to Google's decision to rehire renowned AI pioneer Noam Shazeer.

Shazeer, the creator of Google's conversational application language model (LaMDA), left Google in October 2021 to create the chatbot startup Character.AI.

Reportedly, Google spent $2.7 billion in 2024 to acquire the technology licensing for Character.AI and brought Shazeer back to lead the company's AI initiatives.

Li Kun Yang previously reported to Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox and now reports to Alexander Wang, the founder of Scale AI, who was hired to lead Meta's new "superintelligence" division.

This restructuring reflects Zuckerberg's shift from foundational AI research to rapid, product-focused innovation aimed at catching up with OpenAI and Google.

Li Kun Yang has long believed that while LLMs are "useful," they cannot reason or plan like humans. This position reportedly put him at odds with Meta's new AI direction

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