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TechCrunch reported from an All In panel that AMI Labs and World Labs declined to describe products, timelines or applications. The supply side has the concrete evidence: Physicl CEO Alex de Vigan, who sells training data into these companies, said "I wish they would tell us more. We could build more useful data if we knew what they were working on." AMI co-founder Michael Rabbat's answer was "We'll talk about it when we're ready to talk about it." For anyone evaluating world models as a bet, there is currently no public interface or benchmark to plan against.
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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 "worl...
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation — one of the largest seed rounds in history. Co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, and HV Capital, with participation from Bezos Expeditions and NVIDIA. LeCun is explicitly betting...
AMI Labs raised $1.03B at $3.5B valuation, the largest contrarian bet against LLMs in AI history. LeCun argues the industry's LLM obsession is "wrong-headed" and will fail to solve many real-world problems. Focus: JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture) for robotics, au...
- Source: MIT Technology Review - Date: 2026-01-26 After 12 years at Meta, LeCun founded AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) to build "world models" — explicitly rejecting the LLM paradigm. Paris-headquartered, targeting €3.5B valuation before launching a product. Publicl...
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- Source: TechCrunch - Date: 2026-02-04 Anthropic ran satirical Super Bowl ads: "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude." Altman called them "clearly dishonest," writing an essay-length rebuttal claiming "Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people." Marketing profes...
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