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Computer scientist, AI researcher
And there is certainly a huge demand from the industry and governments for a credible frontier AI company that is neither Chinese nor American.
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AI Verified The sentence is attested verbatim in reproduced excerpts of MIT Technology Review’s Q&A with Yann LeCun, where it appears in LeCun’s answer about AMI’s positioning; an official MIT Technology Review Japan translation links the same original URL and gives the matching passage in translation, and both Caiwei Chen and Yann LeCun shared that same interview/article. That supports the stored quote text, attribution to Yann LeCun, date 2026-01-22, and source URL. ([engins.org](https://www.engins.org/external/yann-lecuns-new-venture-is-a-contrarian-bet-against-large-language-models/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Techmeme shows the January 22, 2026 MIT Technology Review piece is a Q&A with Yann LeCun, and a mirror of that interview reproduces the line as "And there is certainly a huge demand from the industry and governments for a credible frontier AI company that is neither Chinese nor American." Because the submitted version drops "And" and "certainly," I cannot verify it as verbatim; the attribution to LeCun appears right, but the quote as given is altered. ([techmeme.com](https://www.techmeme.com/260122/p23)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. The MIT Technology Review article (Jan 22, 2026) titled 'Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models' contains this quote. WebFetch returned 403, but a targeted web search confirmed the exact phrasing attributed to LeCun in that piece discussing his new venture AMI Labs (Paris-headquartered). Vote 'for' aligns with the statement 'Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally' - LeCun's argument explicitly endorses a non-US/non-Chinese frontier AI company, which is fully consistent with that statement. Year 2026 is current. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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