Why Investors Are Being Asked for $3B+
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In Machines we Trust
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Yann LeCun’s fundraising target is massive even by AI standards. Investors are being asked to back a long-term vision. We explore the risk and reward.
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| 0:00.0 | Jan Lecun has confirmed his new quote unquote world model startup is looking for a five billion |
| 0:08.0 | dollar valuation as he is launching his own AI company. He was famous for being the head |
| 0:14.5 | AI scientist over at Meta and is now going off on his own. He announced this officially, |
| 0:21.3 | but I think it's been basically Silicon Valley's worst kept secret. |
| 0:24.2 | Everyone knows this is what he's been focusing on. |
| 0:27.1 | And he has made it clear that he is not going to be serving as the company's CEO. |
| 0:32.3 | We're going to get into all of the drama, what the company does, who's running it, |
| 0:35.9 | how much he can expect to make, how much other players in similar positions and situations have made, all of that on the show today. But before we do, if you want to try all of the AI models that I talk about on the show, including everything from OpenAI, Meta, GROC, and so many more. There's over 40 different models on AIbox.a.I. I'd love for you to try it out. It's my own startup. I give you access for |
| 0:57.3 | $20 a month to... and so many more. There's over 40 different models on AIbox.com. |
| 0:55.3 | I'd love for you to try it out. |
| 1:14.9 | It's my own startup. I give you access for $20 a month to everything, including 11 labs for audio and a ton of amazing image models. Go check it out. I'll leave a link in the description to AIbox. So let's get into what Jan Lecun is working on. of, he is a scientist who has had a lot of public drama on X. |
| 1:19.7 | I think like a year ago, he left the platform when Elon Musk took it over. |
| 1:22.2 | He had a lot of drama with Elon. |
| 1:26.8 | And sadly, I felt like I didn't really see much from him after that happened. |
| 1:30.6 | He kind of, I think, got shuffled down at Meta. |
| 1:34.3 | Zuckerberg was probably upset that Meta was falling behind in the AI race. |
| 1:40.1 | The head of Meta AI, the CEO of Meta AI, was acquired from another company, |
| 1:43.1 | and it felt like Yan Lakan kind of lost some of his shine over there. |
| 1:45.4 | But no fear, he is a renowned scientist scientist and he decided to start his own company. And that is called Advanced Machine Intelligence |
| 1:50.9 | or AMI. And essentially they went and got Alex LeBron, who's the co-founder and CEO of the |
| 1:55.8 | medical transcription AI, which is called NABLA. He is going to be leading the company as the chief executive. |
| 2:03.3 | And NABLA said that LeCun's new role, they essentially like this whole press release |
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