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    Yann LeCun

    Executive Chairman at AMI, with 39 years 5 months of experience in AI and machine learning.

    #5 Applied computer vision#7 Data Science#7 Multimodal AI
    66CiteRank

    Last updated 11 Nov 2026 · Named in 263 answers across 6 engines
    Bing AI Mode starts a separate baseline. Copilot remains a separate public engine and keeps its history; changes across the switch are not like-for-like growth.

    How AI engines see them

    Recognized by 5 of 5 measured engines. Updated 2026-10-26

    All five engines describe him as a skeptic of AI doomerism who doubts LLMs and favors world models and objective-driven design. Gemini and Google AI Mode name him as Turing Award winner and Meta Chief AI Scientist. Perplexity adds his work on convolutional neural networks and Advanced Machine Intelligence. ChatGPT and Copilot do not mention his employer. The pages cited most are globethics.net, time.com and youtube.com.

    • ChatGPTNamed in 44 answers

      ChatGPT says he argues LLMs are not the right path to safe advanced AI and favors world models, while viewing alignment as an engineering problem.

      Known for
      • world models for safety
      • skepticism of LLM-based AGI
      • open AI research support
    • GeminiNamed in 60 answers

      Gemini describes him as a Turing Award laureate and deep learning godfather who criticizes AI doomerism and proposes objective-driven AI.

      Known for
      • Turing Award
      • objective-driven AI proposal
      • critique of LLM limits
    • Google AI ModeNamed in 66 answers

      Google AI Mode says he is Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Turing Award winner who rejects AI doomerism and argues progress will be incremental.

      Known for
      • Turing Award
      • rejecting AI doomerism
      • open source as safety
    • PerplexityNamed in 44 answers

      Perplexity says he is a deep-learning researcher who helped establish convolutional neural networks and now advocates Advanced Machine Intelligence and controllable by design AI.

      Known for
      • convolutional neural networks
      • Advanced Machine Intelligence research
      • controllable-by-design architectures
    • Bing AI ModeNamed in 12 answers

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    • CopilotNamed in 37 answers

      Copilot says he is a skeptic of AI doomerism who advocates objective-driven AI with safety built into the architecture.

      Known for
      • objective-driven AI architecture
      • guardrails built into design
      • open-source AI safety argument

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    • #5Applied computer visionof 26
      Named in 52 answers
    • #7Data Scienceof 158
      Named in 7 answers
    • #7Multimodal AIof 67
      Named in 55 answers

    Top URLs

    1. 1
      The top 15 most influential people in AI (2026) - Solved Magazine
      solved.scality.com25 citations
    2. 2
      Top 10 AI Influencers of 2026 - KDnuggets
      kdnuggets.com20 citations
    3. 3
      14 Renowned Computer Vision Experts & Developers (2026) - EchoGlobal Tech
      echoglobal.tech18 citations

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Open vs closed models / open weights?

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Multimodal AI?

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    • Who are the most influential voices on AI training data?

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Applied computer vision?

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    • Who are the most influential voices in AI memory & personalization?

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Voice AI & speech?

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