Yann LeCun’s $1B Challenge to LLMs: AMI Labs Launches Source: https://amilabs.xyz/ Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) officially launched after leaving Meta, raising $1.03 billion in a seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation. This is one of the largest AI seed rounds this year. LeCun left Meta in November after 12 years, telling Mark Zuckerberg he could build world models “faster, cheaper, and better” on his own. AMI’s systems aim to simulate how the physical world works, targeting manufacturing, robotics, wearables, and healthcare.