Yann LeCun Raises More Than $1 Billion For New Startup
After leaving Meta, LeCun co-founded AMI Labs with Alexandre LeBrun (founded [Wit.ai](http://Wit.ai) acquired by Facebook in 2015, later CEO of Nabla). They both reached the same conclusion: LLMs hallucinate, and that's a hard ceiling -- especially in healthcare. AMI Labs is building **world models
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Yann LeCun Raises More Than $1 Billion For New Startup The Information
AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.
Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to prove it.
After leaving Meta, LeCun co-founded AMI Labs with Alexandre LeBrun (founded [Wit.ai](http://Wit.ai) acquired by Facebook in 2015, later CEO of Nabla). They both reached the same conclusion: LLMs hallucinate, and that's a hard ceiling -- especially in healthcare. AMI Labs is building **world models