Hua Er Jie Jian Wen·2025-12-19 14:27Group 1 - Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun is seeking €500 million in funding for his newly established AI company, which will value the company at approximately €3 billion before its official launch [1] - The new company, named Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), will focus on developing next-generation superintelligent AI systems, particularly "world models" that can simulate and understand the physical world [2] - AMI Labs' technology foundation is based on research led by LeCun during his time at Meta, aiming to create a new AI architecture capable of learning from text, video, and spatial data, with abilities for continuous memory, complex reasoning, and planning [2] Group 2 - Alexandre LeBrun, co-founder of French health tech startup Nabla, has been appointed as the CEO of AMI Labs, while Nabla will maintain a strategic research partnership with AMI Labs [3] - Meta is undergoing a significant strategic shift in its AI approach, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg aiming to compete directly with OpenAI and Google by moving away from long-term exploratory work initiated by LeCun [4] - Meta has recently laid off approximately 600 employees from its AI research team to reduce costs and accelerate the productization process, reflecting ongoing leadership changes within the company [4]