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Yann LeCun

French computer scientist, Chief AI Scientist at Meta

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  • Fame10.3
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  • Scientists rank#48
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Updated 2026-05-29

Built convolutional neural networks that basically made modern AI vision work. Bounced between academia and Meta's AI labs before launching his own shop in 2025.

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Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025.

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