Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs)

World models that learn abstract representations of real-world sensor data and predict in representation space (JEPA), not pixels or tokens, with persistent memory, planning and safety guardrails. Targets industrial control, robotics, wearables, healthcare.

Founded

December 2025

Headquarters

Paris, with offices in New York, Montreal and Singapore

Founders

Yann LeCun, Alexandre LeBrun

Pushes against

Autoregressive LLMs and generative pixel models as the route to human-level AI.

Now

No product or revenue. AMI says the first year is pure R&D, and CEO LeBrun says at least a year of research comes before first real-world applications, with corporate partner talks in 1-2 years. LeCun left Meta (2025-11) to found it. Public output so far is research papers, not a model release.

Key people

• Yann LeCun (executive chairman)
• Alexandre LeBrun (CEO)
• Saining Xie (chief science officer)
• Pascale Fung
• Michael Rabbat (VP world models)
• Laurent Solly (COO)
• Min Lin

Funding

• 10 March 2026

  Amount

  $1.03B seed

  Valuation

  $3.5B pre-money

  Lead

  Co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, Bezos Expeditions (Nvidia, Toyota, Samsung, Temasek also in)

  Source thenextweb.com

Every funding round in the atlas

What it has shipped

No launch from this lab is in the atlas yet. These come from its profile.

• LeWorldModel (LeWM): 15M-param end-to-end JEPA from pixels (LeCun co-author; academic co-authors, not labeled AMI) 13 March 2026

People moves

Of the moves the atlas tracks, 6 joined and 0 left.

• Pascale Fung 10 March 2026
  Meta to AMI Labs
  Senior director of AI research, Meta
• Alexandre LeBrun 10 March 2026
  Nabla to AMI Labs
  Founder and CEO of Nabla (medical AI)
• Yann LeCun 10 March 2026
  Meta to AMI Labs
  Executive chairman, AMI Labs
• Michael Rabbat 10 March 2026
  Meta to AMI Labs
  Director of research science, Meta
• Saining Xie 10 March 2026
  Google DeepMind to AMI Labs
  Research scientist, Google DeepMind
• Yann LeCun 11 November 2025
  Meta to AMI Labs
  Chief AI Scientist; FAIR founder

Sources

1. amilabs.xyz
2. techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/whos-behind-ami-labs-yann-lecuns-world-model-startup/
3. thenextweb.com/news/yann-lecun-ami-labs-world-models-billion
4. arxiv.org/abs/2603.19312
5. cnbc.com/2026/04/28/meta-google-big-tech-staff-ai-labs-investors.html
6. techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yann-lecuns-ami-labs-raises-1-03-billion-to-build-world-models/
7. societe.com/societe/advanced-machine-intelligence-994675254.html
8. implicator.ai/yann-lecun-raises-1-billion-for-ami-labs-in-europes-largest-seed-round/

This profile was checked and corrected against its sources on 6 October 2026. How we check