Meta’s Yann LeCun targets €3bn valuation for AI start-up (AI column)
In article It tells about the new startup Jan Lekun, one of the two main AI scientists at the banned in Russia company Meta. S 2013 He led the Facebook/Meta FAIR research lab, which he led to become one of the world’s leading research labs, but he is leaving later this year. He is currently working with Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs. (AMI Labs) And he raises €.500 million at an estimate of about €3 billion The main idea is to build the “next generation” of AI that will better understand the physical and cause-and-effect world, rather than just predicting the next token, as modern LLMs do.
Interestingly, LeCun's departure comes amid a major reorganisation within the Meta, which I already have. handler. In short, Mark Zuckerberg has refocused Meta AI from long-term research to the rapid commercialization of AI products. Summer. 2025 The company has a new division - Meta Superintelligence Labs under the leadership of an externally invited specialist Alexander Wang. And then Meta directed huge resources to the development of large language models, actively poaching leading experts. At the same time, it was reduced or transferred to 600 The company lost a number of key scientists. In such an environment, LeCun’s fundamental projects have retreated to the periphery, making it much more difficult for him to obtain resources for his work. His departure symbolizes the conflict between the pursuit of instant results and long-term ambitions in AI research. If we talk about Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, the startup plans to officially announce itself publicly in the beginning. 2026 To become one of the key players of the next generation in the AI industry, competing not only with technology but also with a vision of what intelligence in machines should be.
P.S. The Code World Model I'm talking about. wrote Today, this is an example of FAIR’s work on the “world model” for which Jan LeCun is drowning.
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