M 66 core AI Europe

Yann LeCun

Turing 2018; CNNs; JEPA/world-model paradigm — now betting it at AMI Labs

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Positions

Executive Chairman & co-founder · AMI Labs

2025– verified 2026-07-08
Professor · New York University
Chief AI Scientist · Meta (Superintelligence Labs)

until 2025 verified 2026-07-08

Selected publications

Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition (LeNet) — Proc. IEEE, 1998
Deep learning — Nature, 2015
A path towards autonomous machine intelligence (JEPA position paper) — OpenReview, 2022

Awards

ACM Turing Award (with Hinton, Bengio) (2018)

Companies

AMI Labs — co-founder & Executive Chairman

Collaborators & adjacent figures

M 64 · Geoffrey Hinton Turing 2018 co-laureate
M 65 · Yoshua Bengio Turing 2018 co-laureate
M 68 · Fei-Fei Li direct competitor in world models (World Labs)

Signals

2026-03-01 AMI Labs raised $1.03B seed — largest in European history; Temasek an investor; Singapore office
2025-11-01 Left Meta after Superintelligence Labs restructuring

Observation notes

The strongest institutional bet against the pure-LLM-scaling orthodoxy: JEPA/world-model architectures, now capitalised at billion-dollar scale via AMI Labs (CEO Alexandre LeBrun, CSO Saining Xie, CRIO Pascale Fung). Singapore-relevant: AMI has a Singapore office; Temasek and Sea invested.