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AMI Labs

France

Backers include NVIDIA, Temasek, Xavier Niel and Eric Schmidt; leadership pairs LeCun (chairman) with CEO Alexandre LeBrun, CSO Saining Xie and CRIO Pascale Fung. First disclosed application partner is healthcare startup Nabla.

Updated 2026-07-09 · Last verified 2026-07-09

CountryFR
RegionEMEA
Segmentfoundation-model
Founded2,026
Funding (USD)$1B
Key productsJEPA-based world models for industrial, robotic and healthcare applications
Last round2026-03 · Seed · $1B
EMEA relevanceFounded by Turing laureate Yann LeCun after leaving Meta, Paris-headquartered AMI Labs raised Europe's largest-ever seed round ($1.03B at $3.5B pre-money) in March 2026 to build world models, the non-LLM path to physical AI, with teams in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore.

Sources : TechCrunch (2026-03-09)Sifted (2026-03-09)TechCrunch (2026-01-23)

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Christian Verbrugge

Christian Verbrugge · D·Fairy

Bringing a physical AI solution into European industry?

15 years at KUKA on automotive OEM programs (€100M), now focused on edge AI and autonomous agents. I support robotics and embodied AI companies on their EMEA market entry: OEM and Tier 1 access, co-funded pilots, AI Act readiness.

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