Company
AMI Labs
AI research startup founded by Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun left Meta on Nov. 20, 2025 and founded AMI Labs, which closed a $1.03 billion seed round on March 9, 2026 at a $3.5 billion valuation.
Description sourced from
- AI Lately
“Yann LeCun left Meta on Nov. 20, 2025 and founded AMI Labs, which closed a $1.03 billion seed round on March 9, 2026 at a $3.5 billion valuation.”
Named in 3 pieces
Research
World Models and the Next Paradigm
Yann LeCun quit Meta and raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs, Fei-Fei Li shipped Marble, and four Google veterans launched Discovery Loop, together signaling that the field's next scaling bet runs through physical understanding, a wager bigger than another round of chatbot scaling.
Hiring & Talent
The Founder-Scientist Labs
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence and a cluster of scientist-led startups command double-digit-billion valuations before shipping a product, and the same pay war running through Big Tech now reaches their founding teams too.
Hiring & Talent
Meta Superintelligence Labs: The Raid and the Reckoning
Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman and Shengjia Zhao built Meta's superintelligence unit in a single summer of nine-figure offers and then spent a year restructuring around the researchers who stayed.