Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun is a Turing Award-winning deep learning pioneer and, as of March 2026, the founder of AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence), a new AI company that raised a $1.03 billion seed round at a $4.5 billion valuation . Long known as one of the "three giants" of deep learning and Meta's chief AI scientist, LeCun has spent years arguing that autoregressive large language models like GPT are hitting limits, and that his "world model" approach—centered on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) he proposed in 2022—offers a truer path toward AGI . AMI Labs, his new venture, sits within the "NEO Lab" wave of researcher-led startups that investors are backing to define the next paradigm before big tech can .