AI Engineering

Mar 10, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Yann LeCun’s New AMI Labs Secures $1.03B to Build a World‑Model Alternative to LLMs

Yann LeCun and Alexandre LeBrun have launched AMI Labs, raising $1.03 billion in Europe’s largest seed round to develop JEPA—a world‑model architecture intended to replace LLMs for high‑risk domains, with all code and papers open‑sourced, a 5‑10‑year horizon, and backing from NVIDIA, Samsung, Bezos’ venture, and others.