Chief Scientist: Yann LeCun, Tapestry Kickoff, Paris

Yann LeCun discusses Tapestry, an open source AI initiative aimed at giving countries, regions, institutions, and communities a way to collaboratively train frontier models without pooling private data. In this conversation with Alexy Khrabrov in Paris, LeCun explains why AI sovereignty will require open source collaboration, federated training, diverse local data, and broad participation from governments, universities, companies, and individual contributors. He also clarifies his position on LLMs: they are clearly useful for coding, math, and information access, but he does not see them as a path to human-level intelligence. Topics: Tapestry, open source AI, AI sovereignty, federated training, distributed model training, AI Alliance, LLMs, cultural diversity, democracy, frontier models.