Yann LeCun (@ylecun) — Twitter Score 375 out of 1000

Yann LeCun is an AI researcher and professor who co-founded Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs and previously served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Yann LeCun's Twitter Score is 375 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #697 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.

Yann LeCun works at New York University as a Professor, with research interests spanning AI, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and image compression. He is also Executive Chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, which per public reporting raised over $1 billion in seed funding at a valuation of $3.5 billion excluding that funding. Previously, he worked at Meta as Chief AI Scientist and formerly at Facebook as Director of AI Research.

Yann LeCun is a 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate, recognized for breakthroughs in deep neural networks, one of the most prestigious distinctions in computer science. His foundational contributions to deep learning have shaped modern AI research across academia and industry. Yann LeCun has accumulated 1,232,186 followers as of July 2026 and published 26,709 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 372 accounts, with 985 total mentions.

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