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Pascale FungMeta → AMI Labs. Became AMI's chief research and innovation officer, another senior FAIR alumna following LeCun out of Meta.
Alexandre LeBrunNabla → AMI Labs. Runs AMI day to day as CEO while LeCun is executive chair; previously founded and ran French medical-AI startup Nabla.
Yann LeCunMeta → AMI Labs. AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence) announced a $1.03B seed at $3.5B pre-money to build world models; Alexandre LeBrun is CEO and LeCun stays an NYU professor.
Michael RabbatMeta → AMI Labs. Joined AMI as VP of world models; founding team is drawn almost entirely from Meta's AI research organisation (Sifted reported the first hires in January 2026).
Saining XieGoogle DeepMind → AMI Labs. Became AMI's chief science officer; one of the hires from rival labs (Meta and DeepMind) that Sifted flagged in January 2026.