Yann LeCun just raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs to build “world models” instead of large language models. ...
No product in three months, no revenue in six months, no $10 million ARR in twelve months. That timeline puts AMI Labs completely at odds with the venture capital model that has funded almost every other AI startup.
World models sound like a probable future for AI. Instead of predicting the next word in a sentence, a world model would predict how the world actually works. Said differently, a world model would “understand” causality instead of just correlation. ...
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