Yann LeCun develops new AI system to address real-world understanding

The former Meta chief AI scientist founded AMI Labs and is developing a new AI model focused on understanding the physical world, unlike current LLMs.

• Yann LeCun left Meta in 2025 and founded Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs) in Paris.
• AMI Labs raised more than $1bn from investors including Nvidia and a fund managing Jeff Bezos's wealth.
• LeCun said large language models cannot deal with real-world data and are not a path toward human-level or animal-level intelligence.
• Ingmar Posner, Oxford professor, said the next decade will require AI systems that can answer questions about cause and effect and organise knowledge efficiently.