AMI Labs Raises Over $1 Billion for JEPA as LeCun Targets AI Beyond LLMs
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Updated · BBC.com · Jul 2
AMI Labs Raises Over $1 Billion for JEPA as LeCun Targets AI Beyond LLMs
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 2
Summary
More than $1 billion in seed funding has put Paris-based AMI Labs among Europe’s biggest early-stage AI raises as it builds JEPA, a system Yann LeCun says can handle real-world uncertainty better than LLMs.
JEPA is designed to form abstractions of the physical world rather than predict the next likely token, which LeCun argues leaves models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini unable to reason reliably about actions and outcomes.
Nvidia and the fund managing Jeff Bezos’s private wealth backed the round, reflecting investor interest in “world model” approaches aimed at robotics and other settings where current AI struggles with household-scale tasks.
AMI Labs plans to spend the rest of 2026 refining JEPA and hopes to deploy it first in industrial uses next year, joining rival efforts from Google DeepMind, Wayve and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs.