Shortly after SpaceX’s IPO, AI researcher Yann LeCun has come out with pointed criticism of Elon Musk’s AI company xAI. In an interview with US broadcaster CNBC, conducted on the sidelines of the VivaTech technology conference in Paris – the city that is also home to LeCun’s own company, AMI Labs – he described xAI as “kind of a failure.” He said he does not expect the company to be able to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic at the frontier of AI development. LeCun, who was previously Meta’s