They are currently estimated to be at a 5bn valuation.

JEPAs also strike me as being a bit more akin to human intelligence, where for example, most children are very capable of locomotion and making basic drawings, but unable to make pixel level reconstructions of mental images (!!).

One thing I want to point out is that very LeCunn type techniques demonstrating label free training such as JEAs like DINO and JEPAs have been converging on performance of models that require large amounts of labeled data.

Alexandr Wang is a billionaire who made his wealth through a data labeling company and basically kicked LeCunn out.

Overall this will be good for AI and good for open source.

As a french, I wish him good luck anyway, I'm all for exploring different avenues of achieving AGI.