
Yann LeCunResearcher
AMI Labs
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
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Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at AMI Labs
Assistant Professor at New York University
Xie co-created ResNeXt, an influential design for image recognition, and the diffusion Transformer, which places the Transformer architecture inside an image-generation system and became a foundation for models such as Sora. He now develops world models that learn from images, video, and physical experience.
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New York University
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Last editorial review: August 7, 2026