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Godfather of AI blasts Musk's xAI as 'failure,' says labs are risking a 'big bubble explosion'
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- LeCun, who was previously Meta's chief AI scientist, has clashed with Musk over the past few years on topics ranging from AI to what he described as the Tesla CEO's "conspiracy theories" on social media.
- LeCun is often dubbed a "godfather of AI" because of his early work in the field.
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Elon Musk's x AI is a "failure" that will be unable to compete on the frontier of artificial intelligence, Yann Le Cun, founder of AMI Labs, told CNBC, as he laid out his view on what could cause a "big bubble explosion" in the industry.
Le Cun's comments renew a long-running spat with Musk and cast doubt over valuations of some of the world's biggest AI companies.
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