In a recent post, LeCun announced he's leaving Meta after 12 years — 5 years as founding director of FAIR and the last 7 as Chief AI Scientist.

His departure signals a sharper break: LeCun argues that large language models (LLMs) are a “dead end” for true AI, believing that systems must build internal representations of the physical world — “world-models” — rather than rely purely on text data.

He’s reportedly preparing to found a new startup dedicated to this paradigm, aiming to shift the industry away from scaling LLMs toward embodied AI that can reason, plan, and understand causality.

OpenAI and Jony Ive confirmed that their as-yet-unnamed AI hardware has moved from design to “first prototype” stage — soundproofing months of speculation.

The device is described as minimalist, “simple and beautiful and playful,” likely to be screen-free and roughly the size of a smartphone — an “ambient” AI assistant meant to complement, not replace, phones or laptops.

Ive and Sam Altman suggest release could come in under two years, as the project pivots from concept to tangible product.

DeepSeek has released a new model, DeepSeek‑Math‑V2, which it claims can perform mathematical reasoning at a level comparable to an International Math Olympiad (IMO) gold-medalist — allegedly surpassing comparable models such as Gemini DeepThink.

Rather than optimizing just for correct final answers, the model is trained using a self-verification framework: it generates full solutions, then verifies them via a dedicated “verifier” model; only correct and rigorously proven outputs are rewarded — aiming to ensure internal logical consistency, not just endpoint accuracy.

The team reports that in internal benchmark tests (e.g. the custom “IMO-ProofBench”), DeepSeek-Math-V2 achieved near-perfect scores on easier proofs (≈ 99%) and strong results on challenging proofs — evidence that “process-oriented” reasoning (generation + verification) may be a viable path to robust mathematical AI.

Alibaba has officially released its first AI-powered smart glasses — the Quark AI Glasses — in China, signaling a major push into consumer wearables.

The product comes in two variants: the flagship “S1” with micro-OLED displays overlaying contextual info onto the real world, and a lighter “G1” model without the display.

Features include built-in cameras and bone-conduction microphones, 24-hour swappable battery system, and deep integration with Alibaba’s ecosystem — enabling functions such as real-time translation, price recognition, navigation, meeting transcription, and hands-free AI assistance.

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