AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence

AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) is a Paris frontier-AI research company founded by Yann LeCun and former Meta colleagues to build world models—AI systems that understand, predict and plan in the physical world beyond language-only large models—for robotics, healthcare and industrial applications. LeCun, a Turing Award laureate and long-time Meta chief AI scientist, left Meta to lead the lab after arguing that next-generation intelligence needs causal, grounded models rather than scaling chatbots alone. In March 2026 AMI Labs raised about $1.03 billion in what press called Europe’s largest-ever seed round, valuing the company around $3.5 billion pre-money; co-leads and participants cited include Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with further backing reported from Nvidia, Samsung, Toyota Ventures, Temasek, SBVA, Bpifrance and angels such as Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt and Tim Berners-Lee. Capital funds foundational research and team growth out of Paris. Sources: Tech.eu Q1 2026 seed list; Bloomberg / WIRED / PitchBook Mar 2026.