New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is planning to leave the social-media behemoth to found his own start-up, as per a new report by the Financial Times. The news comes at a time when Mark Zuckerberg has been overhauling Meta's AI efforts, with the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier in the year.

LeCun is a widely recognised luminary in the AI field and a Turing Award winner. He is also a Silver Professor of data science, neural science, and computer engineering at New York University.

He has reportedly told his associates that he will leave Meta in the coming months. He is also said to be in early talks to raise funds for a new venture.

In the last few months, Zuckerberg has looked away from the long-...