Frontier AI research lab building world models for general intelligence
AI📍 Paris, FranceFounded 2026
Current Valuation
$3.5B
as of 2026-Q1
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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
CEO
Alexandre Lebrun
Founded
2026
HQ
Paris, France
Employees
~30
Total Raised
$1.0B
Growth
Pre-revenue research lab
Last Round
Seed — $1.0B (Mar 2026)
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Seed · $1.0B · 5 mo ago
privateTotal raised $1.0B
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$250
Open interest
4
Secondary price return by period
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Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Seed
$1.0B
Mar 2026
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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
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