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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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