PANews reported on November 12 that Yann LeCun, a French-American scientist hailed as one of the "godfathers of AI," will leave Meta after 12 years to start his own AI company. LeCun is known for his critical perspective, believing the current industry craze for large language models (LLMs) is an "irrational obsession."

He pointed out that the real path to surpassing human intelligence lies not in chatbots, but in "world models"—AI systems capable of learning about the real world through video, spatial, and sensor data. LeCun emphasized that this kind of physical-world-based cognitive training is key to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This view is echoed by former Stanford professor and "AI guru" Fei-Fei Li, who believes the next frontier in AI is "spatial intelligence," and that LLMs, while "eloquent, lack experience" and struggle to truly understand the world.