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Yann LeCun's new research, 'LeJEPA,' challenges the complex heuristics used in training massive AI models. It suggests that a simple Gaussian distribution can replace many common tricks, leading to more efficient and powerful self-supervised learning. LeJEPA uses Sketched Isotropic Gaussian Regularization (SIGReg) to enforce an optimal data arrangement, simplifying the learning process. Remarkably, LeJEPA, trained on only 11,000 samples, outperformed DINOv3, which was trained on billions of images. This highlights the power of theoretical insight over brute-force scaling, advocating for a return to theory-informed simplicity in AI research.