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Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs launches with a $1.03B seed to build world models around JEPA
Yann LeCun launched Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) with a record $1.03B seed round at a $3.5B pre-money valuation, aiming to build AI models that understand the physical world through world models rather than just language prediction. The startup, based in Europe with locations in Paris and Zürich, is framed as a major milestone for European AI and backed by a prominent founding team including Alex Lebrun, Saining Xie, and Pascale Fung. The mission is described as a "long-term scientific endeavor" to create AI that "perceives, learns, reasons and acts" in the real world.
xAI Grok Imagine API - the #1 Video Model, Best Pricing and Latency - and merging with SpaceX
genie-3 nano-banana-pro gemini lingbot-world grok-imagine runway-gen-4.5 hunyuan-3d-3.1-pro google-deepmind x-ai runway fal interactive-simulation real-time-generation promptability character-customization world-models open-source video-generation audio-generation animation-workflows model-as-a-service 3d-generation latency coherence demishassabis sundarpichai
Google DeepMind launched Project Genie (Genie 3 + Nano Banana Pro + Gemini), a prototype for creating interactive, real-time generated worlds from text or image prompts, currently available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. (18+) with noted limitations like ~60s generation limits and imperfect physics. In parallel, the open-source LingBot-World offers a real-time interactive world model with <1s latency at 16 FPS and minute-level coherence, emphasizing interactivity and causal consistency. In video generation, xAI Grok Imagine debuted strongly with native audio support, 15s duration, and competitive pricing at $4.20/min including audio, while Runway Gen-4.5 focuses on animation workflows with new features like Motion Sketch and Character Swap. The 3D generation space sees fal adding Hunyuan 3D 3.1 Pro/Rapid to its API offerings, extending model-as-a-service workflows into 3D pipelines.