AMI Labs
AMI Labs is a World Models & Specialty company founded in 2025 and based in Paris, France. It has raised $1.0B in total funding, most recently a Seed in 2026 at a $3.5B valuation.
AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) is an independent AI research lab building action-conditioned world models on Yann LeCun's Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) — a contrarian bet that learning from real-world sensor data, not language alone, is the path to machines that genuinely understand the physical world. It was co-founded in late 2025 by LeCun, who left his post as Meta's Chief AI Scientist, with Alexandre Lebrun — previously co-founder and CEO of healthcare-AI startup Nabla — as CEO and LeCun as executive chairman. Headquartered in Paris with offices in New York, Montreal, and Singapore, the company emerged in March 2026 with a $1.03 billion seed round, the largest ever for a European startup, co-led by Bezos Expeditions, Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, and HV Capital with participation from Nvidia, Samsung, and Temasek. It plans to license its technology for industrial process control, robotics, wearables, and healthcare, and does not expect a saleable product for several years.
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun left Meta to raise $1.03B — Europe's largest seed round ever — on the thesis that world models, not LLMs, lead to real machine intelligence, making AMI Labs the flagship test of the JEPA research program.
At a glance
Total raised
$1.0B
Headcount
11-50
Headquarters
Paris
FranceFounded
2025
Status
Private
Latest valuation
Where AMI Labs ranks
Top 25 AI Agents & Models companies →Funding history
Total raised
$1.0B
Rounds tracked
1
Latest stage
Seed
Latest valuation
$3.5B
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2026 | Seed | $1.0B | $3.5B | Bezos Expeditions, Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital |