{"id":997487,"date":"2026-03-11T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997487"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:26:26","slug":"ex-meta-ai-chief-yann-lecuns-ami-raises-1-billion-for-alternative-ai-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/ex-meta-ai-chief-yann-lecuns-ami-raises-1-billion-for-alternative-ai-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun&#8217;s AMI raises $1 billion for alternative AI approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday it raised $1.03 billion based on a $3.50 billion pre-money valuation, as it seeks to commercialize artificial intelligence systems built around reasoning, planning and &#8220;world models.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The financing positions the company as a test of LeCun&#8217;s belief \u200cthat today&#8217;s \u2060large language \u2060models fall short of human-level reasoning and autonomy. <\/p>\n<p>The funding round was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday it raised $1.03 billion based on a $3.50 billion pre-money valuation, as it seeks to commercialize artificial intelligence systems built around reasoning, planning and &#8220;world models.&#8221; The financing positions the company as a test of LeCun&#8217;s belief \u200cthat today&#8217;s \u2060large language \u2060models fall short of human-level reasoning and autonomy. The funding round was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}