December 21st. Prominent artificial intelligence scientistYang Likun(Yann LeCun) confirmed on Thursday that he had set up a start-up enterprise (an open secret of the scientific community). He indicated, however, that he would not be the chief executive officer of the new company。
This oneStartupsAdvanced Machine Intelligence AMIAlex LeBrun, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nabla's first-founder, an artificial smart star, has also been hired to serve as Chief Executive Officer. Nabla disclosed in a press release the new position of Lebron, which was confirmed by Yang Liqun in a short post from LinkedIn。
“Yes, AMI Labs is my newest company. I am Chairman of the Executive Board, and Alex Lebryn is being transferred from Chief Executive Officer Nabla to Chief Executive Officer of the Advanced Machine Intelligence Laboratory。
According to sources quoted in the British Financial Times, the Advanced Machine Intelligence Laboratory plans to finance the first round of €3 billion (note: the current exchange rate is approximately £24,789 million) even before the company is officially launched, with a target of €500 million (the current exchange rate is about £413.1 billion). At the moment, windfall agencies are keen to invest in start-ups created by leading global artificial intelligence scientists, which, by contrast, are not disproportionate in scale。
For example, the Thinking Machine Laboratory (Thinking Machines Lab), established by the former Chief Technical Officer of OpenAI, Mira Murati, received an estimated $12 billion in seed-wheel financing last year. There is still a gap between the reputation of Mourati in the profession and that of Yang Liqun。
Yang Liquon, a professor at New York University and former Vice-President and Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist of Meta, won the A.M. Turing Award of great value for his research in the field of intensive learning。
The press release also confirms an industry-recognized message that the Advanced Machine Intelligence Laboratory is working on the development of World Model Model AI. This is a technical path that differs from the Big Language Model (LLM), where artificial intelligence attempts to understand the environment (i.e. the “world”) and thus simulates causality and hypothetical scenarios to predict event outcomes. Researchers of world models believe that this technology can solve the problem of “phantoms” inherent in large language models. Large language models cannot guarantee that information will never be fabricated, because “uncertainty” (i.e. creativity) is its essential attribute。
Top-of-the-board laboratories and start-up enterprises, including Google DeepMind, the World Labs established by Lee Fei, are also developing world models. In contrast, advanced machine smart companies may be more aggressive in their fundraising objectives. At the time of the creation of the world laboratory, Li Fei Fei had raised $230 million in a $1 billion valuation, which had at that time been considered a huge source of financing. But that was "old things" in August 2024。
At the same time, Nabla indicated that the company would initiate the recruitment of a new CEO and that it was currently being taken over by Delphine Groll, co-founder and Chief Operator, whose functions were not permanent. Nabla also disclosed that a cooperative agreement had been reached with the advanced machine intelligence company, which would use the model developed by the latter in the future。
Nabla has accumulated $120 million in financing, and the investment side is a luxury. Of these, the company completed the C round of financing in June this year, raising $7 million. Yang Liquon is one of Nabla's investors, and other investors include Build Circle, HV Capital, Highland Europe and Cathay Innovation。
Lebrón may be a suitable candidate for advanced machine intelligence, and he was involved in research in the field long before the concept of “multimodular artificial intelligence” was officially introduced. In the early 1990s, Lebrón worked at Nuance Communications, a technical provider of the early Apple Voice Assistant, Siri, who was once the black technology of the amazing industry (MSC eventually acquired Nuance Communications). According to his home page, Lebrón had founded and sold several natural language start-ups, one of which was acquired by Facebook. He then managed the Facebook artificial intelligence department until 2018, when Nabla was founded。
Lebron claims that Nabla, a star company that started the business of artificial intelligence in Paris, still has good growth. "This year, our annual regular income (ARRs) has grown more than twice in real terms, and is about to break the $1 billion mark!" In announcing his resignation as Chief Executive Officer, Leblem wrote. At the same time, he said that he would continue to be Chairman and Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist of Nabla。