“The shelf life of the current [LLM] paradigm is fairly short, probably three to five years. I think within five years, nobody in their right mind would use them anymore, at least not as the central component of AI systems.”
Chief AI Scientist, Meta (at time of statement); Turing Award laureate
Said Jan 23, 2025Deadline Jan 23, 2030World Economic Forum annual meeting, Davos, 'Debating Technology' panel, 23 January 2025 (reported by TechCrunch)
Deadline is January 2030. As of 2026, LLMs remain the central component of essentially all deployed AI systems; LeCun left Meta in late 2025 and founded AMI Labs to pursue world-model architectures instead.