What is AMI Labs?
Advanced Machine Intelligence is one of the most closely watched AI startups in the world. Founded in 2025 by Yann LeCun and Alexandre LeBrun, it's building AI systems that reason about the physical world, not just language.
About the company →What are World Models?
World Models are AI systems that learn an internal representation of how the world works — enabling machines to plan, predict, and reason about physical reality the way humans do.
The science →The Team
AMI Labs has assembled researchers, engineers, and operators across Paris, New York, Montreal, and Singapore. We track every key hire and leadership change as the team grows.
Meet the team →Global hiring accelerates
AMI Labs begins scaling its team across Paris, New York, Montreal, and Singapore — recruiting world-class researchers, engineers, and operators to build World Models.
$1.03B seed round at $3.5B valuation
AMI Labs closes a landmark $1.03 billion seed round — one of the largest in AI history — backed by Jeff Bezos, Bezos Expeditions, NVIDIA, Samsung, Eric Schmidt, and 60+ investors.
Yann LeCun joins as Executive Chairman
Turing Award laureate and former Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun co-founds AMI Labs, bringing his vision for World Models and next-generation machine intelligence.
AMI Labs brand launched
PengyouCo rebrands as Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), unveiling its mission to build AI systems that go beyond language — grounded in the physical world.
Corporate structure formalised
Articles of association updated with early share restructuring: 1,000,000 shares divided into ordinary shares and SP preference shares carrying 10× voting rights.
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