ClaimsYann LeCun

“So last week we published the V-JEPA work, which is a first step towards training systems for video.”

Yann LeCun, Meta chief AI scientist 8 March 2024 Transcript for Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI (Lex Fridman Podcast)

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Meta published its V-JEPA work the week before this interview, as a first step toward training AI systems on video.

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