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Yann LeCun confirms he has left Meta to found AMI Labs

Confirmed he has left Meta and founded AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs) — himself as Executive Chairman, Alex LeBrun as CEO

Why it matters

With an independent lab pursuing world models rather than LLMs, the landscape of the discourse split

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Presstechcrunch.comhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/yann-lecun-confirms-his-new-world-model-startup-reportedly-seeks-5b-valuation

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