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AMI Labs funding, valuation and investors
Yann LeCun-backed world-model research startup building AI that learns abstract representations of the physical world.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$1.03B · March 10, 2026
Latest known valuation
$3.5B pre-money, Reuters-reported
Seed · March 10, 2026
Total disclosed equity funding
$1B
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
seed · Paris, France; research hubs in New York, Montreal and Singapore
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Cathay Innovation , Greycroft , Hiro Capital , HV Capital , Bezos Expeditions
Other: NVIDIA , Temasek , Samsung , Toyota Ventures , Sea
Overview
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) is a Paris-headquartered world-model research company chaired by Yann LeCun and led by CEO Alexandre LeBrun. It develops systems that model and predict physical environments using sensor and visual data. Reuters and TechCrunch reported a $1.03B seed announced March 10, 2026 at a $3.5B pre-money valuation. Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions co-led.
The company is research-oriented, with no broadly available revenue product at the financing date.
Why AMI Labs is interesting
One of the largest seed financings for a non-LLM AI architecture, but it pursues physical-world understanding and planning, not efficient language generation.
Product & use cases
World-model research with learned predictive representations for physical understanding, planning and safe autonomous action.
- Robotics and real-world planning systems
- Physical environment prediction and industrial autonomy
- Longer-term healthcare, sensors and wearables research
Key facts
- $1.03B seed announced March 10, 2026; $3.5B pre-money valuation
- Five co-leads: Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions
- Alternative world-model research, not NCM or an equivalent text-generation architecture
Funding history (newest first)
Seed
2026-03-10 $1.03B Valuation: $3.5B pre-money, Reuters-reported- Cathay Innovation (lead)
- Greycroft (lead)
- Hiro Capital (lead)
- HV Capital (lead)
- Bezos Expeditions (lead)
- NVIDIA (participant)
- Temasek (participant)
- Samsung (participant)
- Toyota Ventures (participant)
- Sea (participant)
Source: Read source · investing.com
Competitive landscape
Edge: Research team with extensive visual representation and world-model experience, access to capital and strategic industrial partners.
Research funding is not evidence of shipping a profitable product or solving general artificial intelligence. AMI's objectives are distinct from diffusion text models and NCM; covering it alongside them requires explicit category separation.
Market / IPO context
Editorial / static context — not a live quote.
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