AI godfather Yann LeCun has been busy since leaving Meta.

His Paris-based startup, Advance Machine Intelligence, just raised $1 billion to build AI world models. It’s another big bet on what might be the next big thing in AI: systems trained on the physical world, not just text and images. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A free daily digest of the news that matters most. The Verge is a part of PMX Global, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 VM Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved. Sign in to see your notifications or create an account to join the conversation.