# AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs)

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-03-10**: Record Seed Round — AMI announces $1.03 billion in funding to build alternative AI architectures.
- **2026**: Departure from Meta — LeCun leaves Meta to launch AMI as an independent venture.
- **2026**: Model Training — Anticipated period for training the first large-scale world models using Nvidia infrastructure.
- **2024**: JEPA Research — LeCun publishes foundational papers on Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture at Meta.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Yann LeCun’s AMI Secures Record $1.03B Seed Round for World Model Development
2026-03-10 21:43:32 · Sentiment: Positive · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 2

Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion for his new startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI), to develop "world models" that challenge the dominance of Large Language Models. The round, backed by Nvidia and Temasek, marks the largest seed investment in European history and signals a major shift toward objective-driven AI architectures.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/yann-lecun-ami-funding-world-models

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