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Yann LeCun Joins 224 Ventures as Partner Alongside Gemini Technical Co-Lead Oriol Vinyals — Weeks After His Last Fund Attempt Collapsed
Bloomberg reported Aug 5 that LeCun joined 224 Ventures, a $100M+ AI fund co-led by Oriol Vinyals (DeepMind, technical co-lead on Gemini) and Shaun Johnson (AIX Ventures, backer of Perplexity and Chroma), while retaining his executive chairman role at AMI Labs. The fund targets early-stage applications, robotics and infrastructure at sub-$100M valuations without leading rounds; the name references the 224x224 image resolution and Stanford CS224. The notable structural signal is two of the most senior researchers from opposing camps — LeCun's anti-LLM world-models thesis and Vinyals' frontier-LLM work — sharing a cap table strategy.
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