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Yann LeCun’s AMI Raises €890M To Develop Next-Generation AI Systems

Mar 10, 2026 | By Kailee Rainse

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a Paris-based AI startup founded by Yann LeCun, Meta’s former Chief AI Scientist and 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient, has raised nearly €890 million ($1.03 billion) in Seed funding at a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) pre-money valuation.

SUMMARY

  • Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a Paris-based AI startup founded by Yann LeCun, Meta’s former Chief AI Scientist and 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient, has raised nearly €890 million ($1.03 billion) in Seed funding at a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) pre-money valuation.

AMI is developing next-generation AI systems capable of comprehending the world, retaining persistent memory, reasoning, planning, and remaining controllable and safe.

This represents one of the largest Seed rounds ever for a European company, co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, with participation from strategic investors such as Toyota Ventures, Temasek, NVIDIA, Mark Cuban, Groupe industriel Marcel Dassault, Samsung, and many others.

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Alexandre LeBrun, co-founder and CEO of healthcare AI startup Nabla, joins AMI as co-founder and CEO transitioning from Nabla to Chief AI Scientist and Chairman, with Nabla becoming AMI’s first strategic partner.

AMI notes that while generative architectures trained with self-supervised learning excel in language much real-world sensor data is continuous high-dimensional and unpredictable requiring AI systems capable of robust reasoning and anticipatory understanding beyond existing methods.

AMI claims that it will enhance AI research and develop applications focused on reliability, controllability, and safety, particularly in industrial process control, automation, wearable devices, robotics, healthcare, and more. It has been operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore from day one.

About Advanced Machine Intelligence

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) develops next-generation AI systems that understand the real world, retain persistent memory, reason, plan and act safely, delivering true intelligence for complex, real-world environments.

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