{
  "id": 13886760,
  "title": "AI pioneer sees Korea's role in developing world model",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/ai-pioneer-sees-koreas-role-in-developing-world-model-13886760",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T06:02:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20261012/ai-pioneer-sees-koreas-role-in-developing-world-model"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "AI pioneer Yann LeCun believes that South Korea will play a crucial role in developing the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) capable of understanding the physical world. LeCun, a leading figure in global AI academia and a recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, shared his insights during the Global AI Leaders Seoul Dialogue ahead of the fifth International Industrial AI Conference in Tokyo. LeCun, founder of AMI Labs and former chief AI scientist at Meta, is renowned for his work on convolutional neural networks, which have transformed image recognition. He currently advises Project Tapestry, an AI Alliance initiative aimed at creating a large-scale AI model using federated learning, a method that enables AI models to learn from data stored across various locations without transferring the data to a central server.",
  "summary": "Developing industrial artificial intelligence (AI) requires \"world AI\" capable of understanding the physical world, and Korea has an increasingly important role to play in this field, according to Yann LeCun, widely regarded as one of the four leading figures in the global AI academia. LeCun and a number of other leading experts shared their views during the Global AI Leaders Seoul Dialogue, an…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "AI pioneer sees Korea's role in developing world model",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/ai-pioneer-sees-koreas-role-in-developing-world-model",
        "published": "2026-10-12T05:47:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}