Nick Clegg and Yann LeCun: Startup for Advanced Machine Intelligence
The former Meta executives are founding a start-up with AMI, which is dedicated to machine intelligence rather than LLMs. Alex LeBrun will be CEO.
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AMI Labs is the name and at the same time the focus of the start-up founded by former Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun. AMI stands for Advanced Machine Intelligence. The underlying concept is that Large Language Models are severely limited by language. Instead of aiming for superintelligence, as Meta calls it, the goal is to create intelligent systems that can understand tasks and make people's lives easier. World models are to be developed, a not really less noble goal.
Nick Clegg, also a former Meta executive, has also invested in AMI Labs. Clegg was President of Global Affairs for a long time but had to give up his post at the beginning of the year – the Republican Joel Kaplan became his successor. A personnel decision that can certainly be understood politically.
It has now become known that AMI Labs will be led by Alex LeBrun as CEO, who will simultaneously remain Chief Scientist and Chairman at Nabla. LeBrun was previously also CEO of Nabla, an AI company in the medical field. Their system is intended to help with transcription and provide clinical guidance. Nabla and AMI Labs are entering into a strategic partnership, as LeCun confirmed on LinkedIn. How exactly this will look is unclear.
AMI Labs – European World Model
The Financial Times also reports that AMI Labs is to be valued at 3 billion euros from the outset, with a starting capital of 500 million euros. The start-up will apparently be based in France. LeCun and LeBrun currently live and work there. Clegg comes from Great Britain.
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Google DeepMind and Fei Fei Li, a renowned AI researcher, are also working on world models. With Marble, Li's World Labs has launched a model that can create 3D environments from text prompts, which can be further edited.
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