{"id":997533,"date":"2026-03-11T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997533"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:47:07","slug":"ai-godfather-yann-lecuns-ami-labs-raises-1-billion-funding-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/ai-godfather-yann-lecuns-ami-labs-raises-1-billion-funding-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"AI godfather Yann LeCun\u2019s AMI Labs raises $1 billion funding to build AI that understands the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI\u2019s Godfather, Yann LeCun, has launched a bold new venture with his AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs), which just secured $1.03 billion in seed funding at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. The Turing Award-winning AI pioneer and former chief AI scientist at Meta made the announcement of a massive round, which was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions. Other notable investors include NVIDIA, Samsung, Sea, Temasek, Toyota Ventures, Bpifrance, and high-profile individuals such as Tim and Rosemary Berners-Lee, Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt, and Xavier Niel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI\u2019s Godfather, Yann LeCun, has launched a bold new venture with his AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs), which just secured $1.03 billion in seed funding at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. The Turing Award-winning AI pioneer and former chief AI scientist at Meta made the announcement of a massive round, which was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions. Other notable investors include NVIDIA, Samsung, Sea, Temasek, Toyota Ventures, Bpifrance, and high-profile individuals such as Tim and Rosemary Berners-Lee, Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt, and Xavier Niel.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997533","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=997533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}