Yann LeCun’s new startup, AMI Labs, has quickly become one of the most closely watched AI ventures of 2026 after raising an enormous $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. Based in Paris, the company, whose full name is Advanced Machine Intelligence, is pursuing a very different direction from the large language model boom that has defined much of the current AI industry. Rather than concentrating on systems trained mainly on text, AMI Labs wants to b

Jeff Bezos is stepping back into a hands-on leadership role for the first time since leaving Amazon in 2021, taking on the position of co-CEO at a new artificial intelligence startup called Project Prometheus. The venture, which has already secured an extraordinary $6.2 billion in funding, is shaping up to be one of the most heavily financed early-stage startups ever launched ( Investing.com ; Forbes; TechBuzz). Bezos is contributing part of the investment himself, signaling

Perplexity AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup revolutionizing online search, has recently closed a significant $500 million...

Artificial intelligence search company Perplexity AI has started fundraising talks to double its valuation to $8 billion. The startup...