Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer scientist Yann LeCun’s startup AMI Labs has raised a whooping $1.03 Billion in seed round funding at a valuation of $3.5B on Tuesday.

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, a Paris based AI startup of Yann LeCun has received the largest funding in Europe till date, with the funding of $1.03 billion, to develop “world model” AI that learns from reality, not just from language.

Through this funding, the AMI labs seeks to commercialize AI systems that are built around reasoning, planning and “world models”.

The funding round was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions.

65-year-old LeCun, the former META chief, had started AMI Labs in November 2025, after being part of META for 10 years.

According to Reuters, LeCun has claimed that the current AI approaches based on predicting the next word or pixel will not produce broadly capable intelligent agents but with world models, the AI system will be capable of reasoning and planning in complex real world setting.