{"id":180665,"date":"2026-01-22T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/ai-pioneer-yann-lecun-joins-nexar-board-as-mobility-artificial-intelligence-scales\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:55:09","slug":"ai-pioneer-yann-lecun-joins-nexar-board-as-mobility-artificial-intelligence-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/ai-pioneer-yann-lecun-joins-nexar-board-as-mobility-artificial-intelligence-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"AI pioneer Yann LeCun joins Nexar board as mobility artificial intelligence scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/rjduacjuwx\">AI pioneer Yann LeCun joins Nexar board as mobility artificial intelligence scales<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/rjduacjuwx\">https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/rjduacjuwx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-22 12:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.calcalistech.com\">www.calcalistech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Israeli startup Nexar, specializing in AI-powered mobility solutions, announced that Yann LeCun has joined its Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>LeCun, a professor at New York University and former chief AI scientist at Meta, is a renowned pioneer in deep learning and convolutional neural networks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>LeCun received the 2018 Turing Award for his contributions to AI, alongside Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Recently, LeCun has been critical of the overemphasis on large language models (LLMs), arguing that they may fall short in achieving \u201csuperintelligence\u201d in real-world applications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>LeCun left Meta in November 2025 to launch Advanced Machine Intelligence, a new venture aiming to develop AI systems based on real-world understanding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>At Nexar, LeCun will advise on the company\u2019s BADAS platform, which uses real-world driving video data to provide predictive intelligence for autonomous and connected vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Nexar&#8217;s BADAS platform transforms ordinary vehicles into vision sensors, collecting diverse driving data to support the development of AI &#8220;world models.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Zach Greenberger, CEO of Nexar, emphasized that LeCun\u2019s insights align with Nexar\u2019s mission of providing real-world data necessary for AI to build reliable models.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI pioneer Yann LeCun joins Nexar board as mobility artificial intelligence scales https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/rjduacjuwx Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pic1.calcalist.co.il\/picserver3\/crop_images\/2025\/11\/12\/SJennsblbg\/SJennsblbg_0_0_768_433_0_large.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-180665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180667,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180665\/revisions\/180667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}