Meta AI veteran Yann LeCun raises $1 billion for AMI, betting on world models to rival today’s text-based AI systems. Yann LeCun, formerly chief AI scientist at Meta, has raised more than $1 billion in seed money for his new startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI). His investors include European heavyweights (Hiro Capital, Cathay Innovation, Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault), US behemoths (Nvidia, Bezos Expeditions, Eric Schmidt), and Asian giants (Toyota, Samsung). The 65-year-old French