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The Associated Press reported that Yann LeCun said on 19 November 2025 that he would be leaving his job as Meta's chief AI scientist at the end of the year. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-11-19 · event Role Chief AI Scientist Scope and limits The record rests on reporting: AP and CNBC relay LeCun's social-media post, which was not retrieved (LinkedIn is not admissible through the checker; the Threads copy was not found). It establishes the announcement, not the actual last day.
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Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun to leave Meta and start new AI research company (Associated Press) ↗ Ada Derana (Associated Press) · 2025-11-20
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Source excerpt “Yann LeCun said Wednesday he will be leaving his job as Meta's chief AI scientist at the end of the year.” Location in source Opening paragraph
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Ada Derana (Associated Press) Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 d690955fb4f7f2f7a9892f7979fb47e9b171cfacea883651f81d0c7c54677045) directly from the publisher. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Ada Derana (Associated Press), “Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun to leave Meta and start new AI research company (Associated Press)”, 2025-11-20. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The quotation (21 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. secondary source Supports the claim
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup ↗ CNBC · 2025-11-19
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Paraphrase CNBC reports that LeCun is leaving Meta and that he said in a LinkedIn post that he plans to create a startup.
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How it was read Read through a reader relay (r.jina.ai): a third-party rendering of the publisher’s current page, not an archive copy
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Jonathan Vanian Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 03c6ef29337fb1920143a77b91c6165ed7f07c40e6326d4c4cf32c9d34c0aafe) through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Jonathan Vanian, “Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup”, 2025-11-19. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A source announced this person’s departure from a specified role. The event date is the announcement, not an inferred final working day or end of every association.
Date. Announcement date. The planned leaving date ('the end of the year') is as reported, not a confirmed last day.
Record ID lg-mx-lecun-meta-departure-2025