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  "Born": "July 8, 1960, Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France",
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  "Institutions": "AT&T Bell Laboratories (1988-1996); AT&T Labs-Research (1996-2003); New York University (2003-); Meta (2013-2025); AMI Labs (2025-)",
  "Known for": "Convolutional neural networks; LeNet and MNIST; DjVu; FAIR and open-weights advocacy; world-model architectures (JEPA)",
  "Notable works": "LeNet (1989-1998); MNIST (1998); DjVu (1998); Llama open-weights program (2023-); JEPA (2022-)",
  "Awards": "ACM A.M. Turing Award (2018); Princess of Asturias Award (2022); VinFuture Grand Prize (2024); Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025); Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2021); Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (2023)"
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