Yann LeCun Leaves Meta to Build AI That Actually Understands the World — AMI Labs Raises $1.03B
Yann LeCun — Turing Award winner, longtime Meta chief AI scientist, and one of the most vocal critics of the current large-language-model paradigm — has officially left the building. His new venture, AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence), just closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, making it Europe’s largest-ever seed raise in tech. The backers include Nvidia, Temasek, and Jeff Bezos. The thesis: build AI that understands physical reality, not just language. ...