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Turing Award winner Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion in what is Europe's largest-ever seed round for AMI Labs, a Paris-based startup building 'world models' that challenge the dominance of large language models. The venture, valued at $3.5 billion before generating any revenue, represents one of AI's most consequential scientific and commercial gambles—backed by Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and a coalition of global investors betting that the future of artificial intelligence lies not in predicting the next word, but in understanding reality itself.