A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
Joel Khalili
created: Jan. 29, 2026, 7 p.m. | updated: Feb. 1, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem.
Everyone, he declared in a recent interview, has been “LLM-pilled.”On January 21, San Francisco–based startup Logical Intelligence appointed LeCun to its board.
Building on a theory conceived by LeCun two decades prior, the startup claims to have developed a different form of AI, better equipped to learn, reason, and self-correct.
Logical Intelligence has developed what’s known as an energy-based reasoning model (EBM).
Yann is outspoken about the potential limitations of LLMs and which model architectures are most likely to bump AI research forward.
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