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- Meta's top AI scientist urged Mark Zuckerberg to make a ChatGPT rival, the New York Times reports.
- Yann LeCun warned that Facebook and Instagram could potentially go extinct if Meta didn't act.
- A few months later, Meta introduced LLaMA, but the AI assistant hit trouble after a coding leak.
Meta's chief AI scientist warned CEO Mark Zuckerberg that OpenAI's ChatGPT could spell trouble for the company — and that he needed to act fast before it was too late.