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Yann LeCun
Executive Chairman at Adagia Partners
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- Enact IntelligencePre-seed · $30MOct 2026
- Perplexity AISeries AMar 2023
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- 2
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- $30M
- Active
- 2023–26
- Enact IntelligencePre-seed$30MCHJoined · +11 investors
Perplexity AISeries AUSJoined · +9 investors
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Yann LeCun launched a new VC fund, then quit. What happened?
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Last Friday, Europe’s tech ecosystem was abuzz with the news AI godfather Yann LeCun was launching an AI VC firm. Then, hours later, he quit. This week on the podcast, reporter Maya Dharampal-Hornby joins host Freya Pratty to discuss the curious tale of Yann LeCun’s shortly-lived firm,…
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Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel’s Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
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20VC: Yann LeCun on Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Dominate Humanity, Why No Economists Believe All Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI, Why the Size of Models Matters Less and Less & Why Open Models Beat Closed Models
WithYann LeCun
MentionsDavid Marcus
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Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in… More on the show's page
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Ex-Meta VP: ChatGPT Is Just the Trailer for What’s Coming Next
MentionsSovereign AIManohar PaluriYann LeCun
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Why would a top AI leader leave Meta at the peak of the AI boom? Manohar Paluri is the co-founder and CTO of Warp Sciences. Before that, he spent years at Meta, where he worked closely with Yann LeCun. He started his career as an intern, and his alma mater includes IIIT Hyderabad, SRI and Georgia…
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Apple PodcastsIs New York warming to European tech?
MentionsBain CapitalBain Capital VenturesFirstMarkMatt TurckAbby MeyersAnish Acharya
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Senior reporter Anne Sraders has just spent two weeks in New York, and one thing was impossible to miss: AI was everywhere. From subway ads to investor breakfasts, it was the only conversation in town. "Everyone wants to find the next Anthropic for every other domain," Abby Meyers of Bain Capital…
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Apple PodcastsTiny VC partner Philipp Moehring on when to take money off the table
MentionsPhilipp MoehringTiny VCAndy ChungDavid SilverYann LeCun
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European seed rounds are ballooning. Last month Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs picked up $1bn at a $3bn valuation while David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence was reported to be raising $1bn at a $4bn valuation. “Thankfully, the billion dollar seed round is not the standard across Europe, yet,” Philipp…
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Apple PodcastsThe First AI Market With 8 Billion Potential Users | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest AI
MentionsArjun JainYann LeCun
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Will smaller AI models win over large language models? Sudarshan Kamath grew up in Mumbai, taught himself AI before most Indian companies were even hiring for it, and bought the domain "smallest.ai" for $100 in 2022, two years before the company existed. Today, he runs Smallest AI, a startup…
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Apple PodcastsWhat are world models, and are they Europe’s winning AI bet?
MentionsYann LeCun
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The AI debate has been dominated by large language models used to power the likes of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. But could the next wave of AI look very different? Yes, some European AI watchers say. Attention is shifting to so-called “world models”, systems designed to build internal…
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