Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI Labs bags over $1 billion in seed funding
10 Mar 2026, 01:15 PMThe round was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, along with other investors and angels across the world.
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AMI Labs, a startup co-founded by Yann LeCun, the former chief AI scientist at Meta, has raised $1.03 billion in a seed funding round at a pre-money valuation of $3.5 billion.
"We just completed our seed round: $1.03B/890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company," said LeCun in an X post.
The round was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, along with other investors and angels across the world, said AMI Labs separately in an X post.
The post added that the startup is growing team of researchers and builders, operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore.
Founded by a team of scientists, engineers, and builders, AMI is a frontier AI research lab, as per its website. Its main goal is to build intelligent systems that understand the real world, it added.
According to AMI Labs, it is developing world models that learn abstract representations of real-world sensor data, ignoring unpredictable details, and that make predictions in representation space.
Last year, AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which was floated by OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati, secured a whopping $2 billion in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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