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Yann LeCun
Founding director of FAIR, Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs)
| Known as | French computer scientist (born 1960) |
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| Roles | Founding director of FAIR, Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs) |
| Education | ESIEE Paris, Pierre and Marie Curie University, University of Toronto |
| Recognition | Turing Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, ACM Fellow |
| Links | Wikipedia · ai.meta.com |
About Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is founding director of FAIR at Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs).
Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs): Meta's AI research and model teams, behind the Llama open-weight models.
Yann studied at ESIEE Paris, Pierre and Marie Curie University and University of Toronto.
Honours for Yann's work include: Turing Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award and ACM Fellow.
Today Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs) ranks #49 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 760 papers in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Yann is part of that story.
Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Yann, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.