Yann LeCun

Recent claims

• Large language models (LLMs) will become obsolete technology within 5 years.
  Oct 27, 2025
• Small-scale AI systems capable of learning world models, having persistent memory, possessing true reasoning abilities, and performing planning will emerge by April 2030.
  Apr 10, 2025
• Human-level Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) will be achieved within the next decade or so.
  Apr 10, 2025
• Large Language Models (LLMs) will be largely obsolete.
  Apr 2, 2025
• JEPA-based models that have an understanding of the physical world and System 2-type abilities will replace LLMs in five years.
  Apr 2, 2025
• The current paradigm of generative AI (GenAI) has a shelf life of three years, implying that it will be largely obsolete or replaced by a different model.
  Feb 11, 2025
• AI systems capable of understanding the physical world at the level of a domestic cat or rat will be achieved.
  Feb 5, 2025
• AI will reach a level of physical understanding akin to that of small mammals within the next 3-5 years.
  Feb 5, 2025
• A fundamental shift in AI architecture will be witnessed within the next three to five years.
  Jan 24, 2025
• A fundamental shift in AI architecture will occur, moving beyond current generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to new systems capable of reasoning, planning, understanding the physical world, and having persistent memory, within the next three to five years.
  Jan 24, 2025