@theventure: This man just raised $1 billion to prove the entire AI industry is building the wrong thing 🤖💰 In 2018, Yann LeCun wins the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing, for helping invent deep learning. For twelve years he runs Meta's AI lab as its Chief AI Scientist. But he has one big problem with the industry he helped build: every major AI company, including his own, bets everything on models that just predict the next word in a sentence. He's said for years this will never produce real intelligence. Meta doesn't listen. In October 2025 it lays off 600 people from its AI division, including researchers from the lab LeCun founded. So he goes to Zuckerberg and says it plainly: he can do it faster, cheaper, and better outside of Meta. ✓ Quits on the spot when Zuckerberg says no ✓ Launches AMI Labs four months later, built to teach AI to understand the real, physical world, not just text ✓ Wins checks from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt without blinking ✓ Raises over $1 billion with zero revenue Invents deep learning → says the whole industry's approach is wrong → nobody listens → quits Meta → builds AI that understands the real world → $1B raised on zero revenue. Sometimes the most valuable thing you can bet on is being right when everyone else is wrong. What would you walk away from if you were certain the whole industry was headed the wrong way? 🤔 #Business #AMILabs #AI #Success #Entrepreneur

The Venture

Open In TikTok:

Region: US

Monday 06 July 2026 13:15:15 GMT