Former Meta AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Raises Over $1 Billion for New Startup

Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup co-founded by Meta Platforms’ META 1.03%increase; green up pointing triangle former chief artificial-intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, said it raised $1.03 billion in a seed funding round as it seeks to develop a new breed of AI systems that can better understand the real world than existing models.

LeCun, often described as one of the godfathers of AI, created an AI research organization inside Facebook in 2013 and became Meta’s chief AI scientist a few years later. However, he recently left the tech giant as his views on AI diverged from the company’s, saying he didn’t believe that large language models would lead to so-called superintelligence, or intelligence that is smarter than humans.