'There's a race to steal each other's engineers in Silicon Valley...', what did a former Meta employee say about AI?

News Topical, Digital Desk : Yann Lukken, former AI scientist at Meta and known as the "Godfather of AI," has strongly criticized Silicon Valley. He described many of Silicon Valley's largest companies as "LL.M.-peddled." Yann argues that Silicon Valley's largest tech companies are competing to hire AI researchers, with the goal of stifling innovation.

According to Yan, the AI ​​industry is based on the LLM (Long Language Model). Everyone in Silicon Valley is working on it. They poach engineers from each other. But they don't try to innovate themselves. Everyone is doing the same thing.

Why did Yan leave Meta?

Explaining his reason for leaving Meta, Yan says that Meta had become "LLM-piled." That's why I decided to leave Meta. It was a strategic decision. We can't even imagine creating agentic systems that don't know the consequences of their actions.

According to Yan, a truly agentic system is one that can make the right decisions on your behalf. And such an agentic system cannot be created unless it is aware of the consequences of its actions.

Yan says, "Usually, when a human being does something, he knows what the outcome will be. But, this is not the case with AI. That is why we should work on it."

Meta Superintelligence Lab

It's worth noting that Meta Superintelligence Lab was launched by Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg in June 2025. It is led by former AI CEO Alexander Wang. The project has a $14.3 billion budget.

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