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January 12, 2026

Yann LeCun poaches from Meta, Google DeepMind for new startup

New details on the buzzy startup's team formed by Meta’s former chief AI scientist to build world models


Yann LeCun at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025. Credit: Isabelle Harsin/SIPA/MEAE

Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun’s new startup AMI Labs is taking shape, with a handful of key hires from some of the world’s leading AI companies, Sifted can reveal. 

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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