Yann LeCun's New Startup Aims to Build AI That Understands the Physical World, Securing $1 Billion in Funding

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Published: Mar 10, 2026 05:00
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Yann LeCun, a former chief AI scientist at Meta, has launched Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) with the ambitious goal of developing AI that truly understands the physical world. This new venture secured over $1 billion in funding, signaling strong confidence in this innovative approach to achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This focus on world models could revolutionize how we build and interact with AI.
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""The idea that you’re going to extend the capabilities of LLMs [large language models] to the point that they’re going to have human-level intelligence is complete nonsense," he said."
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