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Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs Secures $1B to Pivot AI Toward Physical World Understanding

Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun’s new startup, AMI Labs, has raised $1.03 billion to develop 'World Models' that understand the laws of physics. With strategic backing from Nvidia and a focus on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA), LeCun aims to move beyond the limitations of text-only AI toward human-level physical reasoning.

Jasmine·Mar 10, 2026