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Nick Clegg und Yann LeCun: Start-up für Advanced Machine Intelligence
Die Ex-Meta-Leitenden gründen mit AMI ein Start-up, das maschineller Intelligenz statt LLMs verschrieben ist. CEO wird Alex LeBrun.

Yann LeCun says Llama 4's "results were fudged a little bit", and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e3c4c2f6-4ea7-4adf-b945-e58495f836c2

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-…

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models  
In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

(YouTube) Embodied AI: Systems that see, hear, and act in the world alongside humans | AI House Davos 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyoqapCRZE with Yann LeCun and Marc Pollefeys

VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
Delong Chen, Mustafa Shukor, Theo Moutakanni, Willy Chung, Jade Yu, Tejaswi Kasarla, Allen Bolourchi, Yann LeCun, Pascale Fung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10942

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d88729c0-c44f-4530-b888-bafa29ee0446

Nick Clegg joins London-based VC firm Hiro Capital as a general partner, and Yann LeCun joins the firm as an adviser; sources: Hiro looks to raise a €500M fund (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/98cf87d9-3d1c-4f60-9c50-eed36a25e219