--- title: "\"Godfather of AI\" criticizes Meta's new 29-year-old AI head for \"lack of experience\"" type: "News" locale: "zh-CN" url: "https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/271544437.md" description: "Former Chief AI Scientist of Meta, Yang Likun, criticized the new 29-year-old AI head, Alexander Wang, for being \"inexperienced\" and warned that the company may face the risk of talent loss. Yang pointed out that Wang lacks research experience and does not understand the factors that attract researchers. Wang is a co-founder of the AI company Scale AI and joined Meta in 2025, coinciding with the intensifying competition for AI talent" datetime: "2026-01-05T16:50:47.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/271544437.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/271544437.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/271544437.md) --- > 支持的语言: [English](https://longbridge.com/en/news/271544437.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/271544437.md) # "Godfather of AI" criticizes Meta's new 29-year-old AI head for "lack of experience" Author: Sada Baimiya **Key Points** - Yann LeCun, former chief artificial intelligence scientist at Meta, criticized the company's AI strategy and warned that it may face a massive talent exodus. - The scientist, known as the "Godfather of AI," bluntly stated that Meta's new 29-year-old billionaire AI head, Alexander Wang, is "too young" and "lacks experience." - In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun remarked that Alexander Wang "has no research-related experience, does not understand how to conduct research, nor does he know what factors attract researchers and what factors repel them." On May 22, 2024, Wednesday, at the VivaTech exhibition in Paris, France, Yann LeCun, chief artificial intelligence scientist at Meta, attended the event. This annual technology innovation event runs until May 25. Yann LeCun publicly criticized Meta's new 29-year-old AI head for being "inexperienced" and warned that Meta may face a talent drain. The new head, Alexander Wang, is a co-founder of the AI company Scale AI and a billionaire. In 2025, after Meta acquired 49% of the startup he founded, he joined Meta as chief AI officer. This was during a time when the competition for talent in the AI field was intensifying. Reports indicated that to poach top talent from OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, Meta offered signing bonuses of $100 million. At that time, Meta was in fierce competition with other tech giants, hoping to dominate this multi-billion dollar market with cutting-edge AI models. LeCun is recognized as one of the "Godfathers of AI" and left Meta last November. In an interview with the Financial Times, he candidly stated that Alexander Wang is "too young" and "lacks experience." Alexander Wang is currently in charge of Meta's newly established AI research department - TBD Labs, tasked with developing the next generation of AI models. LeCun described him as "having a strong learning ability and being aware of his shortcomings," but quickly added, "He has no research-related experience, does not understand how to conduct research, nor does he know what factors attract researchers and what factors repel them." Yang Likun, who is 65 years old this year, further pointed out that Meta was previously exposed for falsifying benchmark tests to embellish the performance of its artificial intelligence model Llama 4. After this incident, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg "basically lost trust in all relevant personnel." Yang Likun stated that Zuckerberg "has effectively marginalized the entire generative artificial intelligence department." "Many people have already left, and those who haven't will eventually leave," Yang Likun added. He also stated, "We originally had many novel and excellent ideas that should have been implemented, but they are only fixated on those safe and proven solutions. Over time, this will only lead to gradually falling behind." CNBC has contacted Meta for comments, but as of the publication of this article, no response has been received. **Yang Likun: The path from large language models to super artificial intelligence is a "dead end"** When asked about Meta's artificial intelligence talent recruitment strategy, Yang Likun stated, "Whether this move is wise will be answered in the future." But he immediately emphasized, "In terms of super artificial intelligence, large language models are essentially a dead end." Yang Likun said, "I am sure that there are many people inside Meta, perhaps including Alex (the nickname for Alexander Wang), who do not want me to make this point public." Yang Likun's new startup - Advanced Machine Intelligence Laboratory, is currently focused on the development of "world models." These types of artificial intelligence systems can not only process language data but also learn from various data types such as video. The medical technology AI startup Nabla reached a collaboration with Yang Likun's company last December. The company pointed out in a press release that, unlike world models, large language models "still have some structural flaws, including a tendency to hallucinate, uncertainty in reasoning processes, and limited ability to handle continuous multimodal data, all of which make autonomous decision-making very difficult." ### 相关股票 - [Meta Platforms (META.US)](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/quote/META.US.md) ## 相关资讯与研究 - [Tech Wrap March 30: OPPO Find X9 Ultra, WhatsApp on CarPlay, Blaupunkt](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281041030.md) - [Draft IT regulations may widen govt oversight on social media content](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281133616.md) - [Govt proposes to bring independent news creators under MIB purview](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281049326.md) - [Meta Superintelligence Labs is quietly building a hardware team](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281657591.md) - [Meta integrated ai into the core of its risk review program - website](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/281190495.md)