Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises $1.03 billion to build world models

Anna Heim / techcrunch - AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.

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Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, plans to prove it. www.wired.com/story/yann-l...

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AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.

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Herr @yann-lecun.bsky.social napper en milliard dollars til at bygge en rigtig AI (world models, ikke LLM)

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