Yann LeCun, recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, is one of the leading figures in AI research—and is now doing his own thing. Following a strategic disagreement with his former boss Mark Zuckerberg (LeCun sees World Models as more promising than the constant, expensive improvement of LLMs through massive computing power), he has now established AMI Labs with headquarters in Paris. Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI) has now raised $1.03 billion (approximately €890 million) in a seed