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Samaya AI, startup building AI for financial services, raises $43.5 million in VC funding
NEA led the round for the company, which is also backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Meta AI's Yann LeCun, Two Sigma's ...
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Samaya AI, startup building AI for financial services, raises $43.5 million in VC funding
Also participating in the new investment round were former Google CEO turned prominent Silicon Valley investor Eric Schmidt; AI “godfather” Yann LeCun ... a complex flow diagram highlighting ...
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Meta AI chief: ‘Inferiority complex’ is stunting European tech
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun believes an “inferiority complex” is holding back Europe's tech industry. Others ...
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Meta's Yann Lecun Criticizes AI Hype With Bigger Models: 'It's Not Just About Scaling Anymore'
The AI community has lived by a simple creed: bigger is better. OpenAI's groundbreaking 2020 paper, "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models," led the charge by implying that model performance ...
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Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Slams AI Hype: 'Scaling Systems More' Won't Make Them Smarter – 'We Need AI That Understands The World'
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Slams AI Hype: 'Scaling Systems More' Won't Make Them Smarter – 'We Need AI That Understands The World' Casey B. Renner Sun, May 4, 2025, 11:37 AM 3 min read ...
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Meta Taps New Head of AI Lab After Staffer’s Return From Google
in 2014 with Yann LeCun, who currently serves as the chief AI scientist at Meta. The unit is tasked with Meta’s longer-term ...
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Meta's chief AI scientist says scaling AI won't make it smarter
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, pushed back against "scaling laws." These laws say that the bigger AI models are, the more high-performing and smarter they will be. "It's not just about ...