{"id":476,"date":"2026-06-18T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:41:19","slug":"ai-pioneer-yann-lecun-calls-xai-a-failure-reignites-feud-with-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Calls xAI a \u2018Failure,\u2019 Reignites Feud With Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Yann LeCun, one of the \u201cgodfathers of AI,\u201d is in something of a sweet spot professionally. He\u2019s still well respected in the field he helped define; he\u2019s free from the control of the big frontier labs that dominate the space; and his own project is so young that no one expects much of it yet. So he\u2019s making the most of his freedom by taking shots at everyone else\u2014especially Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=474\">Scientists Discover Surprising Link Between Birth Control Pills and Emotional Eating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNBC, LeCun decided to call it as he sees it\u2014and it seems when he looks at xAI, he doesn\u2019t see much worth respecting. \u201cXAI is kind of a failure, frankly,\u201d he told the outlet, citing the departure of basically every founding member not named Elon Musk. \u201cElon is now in a position that is very, very difficult for him to kind of hire top people in AI, because he\u2019s kind of, you know, not behaved in sort of very good ways toward the\u2026 previous team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of the xAI founders have really had much to say on their way out the door, but they all have headed for the door. The very last holdout of the original 11 who went in with Musk to start the AI lab, Ross Nordeen, was reportedly forced out by Musk, having his access to xAI systems abruptly cut off and getting unceremoniously removed from the company group chat.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LeCun also has not exactly had the most friendly of interactions with Musk in the past, so it\u2019s reasonable enough that he just assumes he\u2019s a dick to everyone. LeCun took a shot at how Musk runs his company back in 2024, only for Musk to basically ask who he is, which is not exactly a great look for someone working in the space that LeCun\u2019s research made possible. Hard to say LeCun wasn\u2019t proved right on the \u201cMusk seems like a bad boss\u201d front.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=472\">Logitech\u2019s Folding Travel Mouse Fails at the One Thing That Matters Most<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In LeCun\u2019s view, xAI doesn\u2019t seem like a meaningful player in the frontier lab space and is instead just a rent-a-data-center operation. \u201cHe\u2019s got this huge infrastructure, which he rents to other people, because that\u2019s the only way he can recoup the costs,\u201d he said, before outright saying he doesn\u2019t think xAI can compete with the OpenAIs and Anthropics of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Though, to be fair, LeCun doesn\u2019t exactly think those companies are in a great spot, either. Not that they aren\u2019t producing meaningful technology, but rather that the economic math is starting to get harder to solve. \u201cThe prices are going up of those AI services, but the cost of running them is going down, but not nearly fast enough,\u201d LeCun said. \u201cAnd so all of those companies are losing money, and basically, the use for most people is funded by the investors. That can\u2019t go on for a very long, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hard to say if he\u2019s right or not. Common sense would certainly suggest he is, but we went through the entire ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) era, in which startups like Uber were able to price out competitors by burning through investor cash until it pushed out alternatives and then jacked up prices. We\u2019re not in a zero-interest environment anymore, but these companies have been able to raise nearly endless money on bonkers valuations. SpaceX, which has not turned a profit and has a business model that includes going to Mars, keeps seeing its stock price climb since going public. We\u2019re not exactly in a rational economy here.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=470\">Remember Midjourney? It\u2019s Building a Medical Scanning Device That It Says Is Cheaper Than an MRI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk: Oh yeah? Could a failure of an AI company do this? 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