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Yann LeCun ✓

@ylecun · New York · joined 17 Jun 2009

Founder/Chair, AMI Labs; Professor, NYU; Partner, 224 Ventures; Ex-Chief AI Scientist, Meta. Researcher in AI, ML, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Award Laureate.

1 311 066Followers
796Following
27 435Posts total
22.5MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@ylecun @rdomenechv @TheEconomist Jobundance is the better headline if the tools actually ship work.. 44 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@ylecun @rdomenechv @TheEconomist Net job counts hide the composition shift. The bill shows up in decision-layer work — evals, routing, power ops. More roles, different skills, steeper learning curve than the headline "jobundance" implies. 24 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@ylecun @rdomenechv @TheEconomist "data center construction to AI engineering" .. very ephemeral job categories unfortunately. 116 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Only in America. Tired of winning? 328.2K views · 1K likes · 58 reposts · 148 replies Open on X →
Giving birth in Europe vs in America 😂 https://t.co/oS7w1ia01j
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1.8M views · 29.8K likes · 2.5K reposts · 655 replies Open on X →
Tired of not winning 252.6K views · 717 likes · 71 reposts · 91 replies Open on X →
Donald Trump “erupted” during a meeting with his top national security team last week, reportedly yelling expletives at those present, according to NBC News. The report says Trump is “exasperated” by the lack of progress in ending the Iran war and the lack of a clear strategy. h
421.9K views · 1.4K likes · 396 reposts · 229 replies Open on X →
Tired of winning 208.4K views · 1.1K likes · 58 reposts · 83 replies Open on X →
Oil is back above $100, and gas is above $4. These numbers are brutal for inflation and Americans' pocketbooks. And there is no end in sight for their fundamental cause: Trump's war of choice in Iran. https://t.co/LtTEpYrGjf
253K views · 1.5K likes · 744 reposts · 55 replies Open on X →
Tired of winning 159.3K views · 360 likes · 34 reposts · 41 replies Open on X →
Trump's Beef Catastrophe: Incompetence, Blithering Idiocy, and Blatant Lies Have Obliterated America's Beef Industry In yet another humiliating display of incompetence, the authoritarian Trump regime has turned America's once-mighty beef industry into a national punchline. After
239.4K views · 2.2K likes · 1.4K reposts · 147 replies Open on X →
@ylecun @demishassabis https://t.co/fKhOlE73xa
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10K views · 125 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@ylecun @demishassabis This is at least 2^(3.2E15)x better content than Jake Paul. 23.1K views · 228 likes · 7 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
@ylecun @demishassabis Demis LLM was trained on a lot more English than Yann LLM who’s French 25.9K views · 59 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
@demishassabis I think the disagreement is largely one of vocabulary. I object to the use of "general" to designate "human level" because humans are extremely specialized. You may disagree that the human mind is specialized, but it really is. It's not just a question of theoreti 260.2K views · 3K likes · 238 reposts · 221 replies Open on X →
Yann is just plain incorrect here, he’s confusing general intelligence with universal intelligence. Brains are the most exquis​ite and complex phenomena we know of in the universe (so far), and they are in fact extremely general. Obviously one can’t circumvent the no free lunch 13.5M views · 11.5K likes · 1.2K reposts · 803 replies Open on X →
Yann LeCun says there is no such thing as general intelligence Human intelligence is super-specialized for the physical world, and our feeling of generality is an illusion We only seem general because we can't imagine the problems we're blind to "the concept is complete BS" ht
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2.8M views · 4.4K likes · 436 reposts · 357 replies Open on X →
@ylecun It's ridiculous for a man of your caliber to behave like this. Leave or stay, but don't behave like you're in kindergarten. 49.6K views · 247 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
Web: https://t.co/rBCcBgMGF6 Wikipedia: https://t.co/08PE0M3FFM G-Scholar: https://t.co/5WWDfq364r ArXiv: https://t.co/81rho6K375 134.8K views · 164 likes · 11 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →
I do not write posts on X. I tweet links to posts on other platforms. I like and retweet (occasionally) I comment on friends' tweets (rarely) Follow me on...⬇️⬇️⬇️ 2M views · 2.1K likes · 117 reposts · 1K replies Open on X →
Threads: https://t.co/SjwMfBfL41 LinkedIn: https://t.co/aSXH96q5DG BlueSky: https://t.co/Tf7ftYlUav Facebook: https://t.co/xwKhOjzlOK 143.2K views · 244 likes · 17 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views252 646this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %19.27%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.48%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
MetricThis accountMedian for 1M–10MRatio
Median views per post252 64614 64817.2×
Reach (views ÷ followers)19.27%0.74%26.0×
Engagement rate0.48%0.70%0.69×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

25.9K22 Dec
23.1K23 Dec
10K
239.4K9 Jul
159.3K10 Jul
253K23 Jul
208.4K24 Jul
421.9K31 Jul
252.6K
1.8M15 Aug
328.2K16 Aug
1167 Sep
248 Sep
44

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.24%22 Dec
1.05%23 Dec
1.28%
1.64%9 Jul
0.27%10 Jul
0.92%23 Jul
0.62%24 Jul
0.48%31 Jul
0.36%
1.80%15 Aug
0.37%16 Aug
1.72%7 Sep
0.00%8 Sep
0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.

What the audience does

Likes68.2%60 008 in total
Reposts8.3%7 310 in total
Replies4.4%3 913 in total
Quotes0.7%578 in total
Bookmarks18.3%16 132 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

21 Sep24 Sep

Daily snapshots since 21 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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