AMI Labs, founded by AI researcher Yann LeCun (얀 르쿤), has raised $1.03 billion to develop a world model, SiliconANGLE reported on March 10 local time.
The investment included Khosla Ventures, Greycroft, Hiro Capital and Bezos Expeditions led by Jeff Bezos, and also brought in Nvidia and Samsung Electronics. AMI Labs is valued at $3.5 billion.
LeCun founded AMI Labs after leaving Meta last year. He led Meta's AI research group for more than 10 years and drove development of the Llama LLM series and PyTorch.
AMI Labs aims to develop a “world model” that analyses camera and sensor data. It plans to apply AI across industries including optimisation of aircraft parts design, healthcare and robotics. It is developing technology for robots to predict their environment and plan tasks.
AMI Labs plans to build a new AI architecture rather than use an existing generative AI approach. LeCun is likely to use the AI model “JEPA” developed during his time at Meta. The model is designed to boost efficiency by removing unnecessary information from data.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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