AMI Labs
Frontier AI research lab building world models for general intelligence
AI
📍 Paris, France
Founded 2026
Current Valuation
$3.5B
as of 2026-Q1
UNICORN
AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) is the new research lab co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, alongside Wit.ai and Nabla founder Alexandre Lebrun as CEO. The lab raised $1.03 billion in seed funding at a $3.5 billion valuation in March 2026 to pursue world-model architectures — a research bet, championed by LeCun, that next-generation AI must model and predict the physical world rather than scale autoregressive text models.
Company Profile
Growth
Pre-revenue research lab
Last Round
Seed — $1.0B (Mar 2026)
Fundraising Status
Seed · $1.0B · 4 mo ago
privateTotal raised $1.0B
Latest Funding Round
| Round | Amount | Date | Lead Investor | Post-Money |
|---|
| Seed | $1.0B | Mar 2026 | — | — |
Founders & Key People
Yann LeCunAlexandre Lebrun
Investors
General Catalyst · Sequoia Capital · Felicis · Future Ventures
Products
- World model research
- JEPA-family architectures
- Embodied agent systems (planned)
Competitors
OpenAI · Anthropic · Google DeepMind · Meta AI · Mistral AI
AIFoundation ModelsWorld ModelsYann LeCun
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.