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Public story · 2026-03-11 · source-backed
LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at $3.5B pre-money — Europe's largest-ever seed round. Investors include NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Samsung, Toyota. LeCun's thesis: LLMs are fundamentally wrong for intelligence because they learn from text, not the physical world. AMI will build "world models" trained on video and spatial data. After a strategic disagreement with Zuckerberg, LeCun left Meta to go all-in. This is the most well-funded contrarian bet against the dominant LLM paradigm. TechCrunch
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Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation — one of the largest seed rounds in history. Co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, and HV Capital, with participation from Bezos Expeditions and NVIDIA. LeCun is explicitly betting...
AMI Labs raised $1.03B at $3.5B valuation, the largest contrarian bet against LLMs in AI history. LeCun argues the industry's LLM obsession is "wrong-headed" and will fail to solve many real-world problems. Focus: JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture) for robotics, au...
- Source: MIT Technology Review - Date: 2026-01-26 After 12 years at Meta, LeCun founded AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) to build "world models" — explicitly rejecting the LLM paradigm. Paris-headquartered, targeting €3.5B valuation before launching a product. Publicl...
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