This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, March 10th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context and help each other, understand.

Ah, yes, that's what we try to do.

And today, Jan Lacoon is betting that LLMs are dead.

They're a dead end.

They're not dead. They're a dead end. They're not dead. They're a dead end.

But world models. World models are the future. Time to learn a new buzzword, folks. Yeah, we'll talk all about it. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Merritt. Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

Advanced machine intelligence, aka.K.A. AMI. Labs, that is Jan LeCoon's new world model company, has raised $1.03 billion. So let's just say a billion dollars and some change.

Jan LeCoon left meta, you may remember, last November, where he was chief AI scientist

for a number of years.

He left to co-found AMI and concentrate on world models as his bet for achieving human

level AI.

He argues that LLMs alone are not going to lead by themselves to AGI, and that world models

are the real missing piece here.

Now, world models learn from video, they learn from sensor data, interactions in the real

world to build an internal simulation of how objects and agents and time and other real-world entities,

let's say, actually behave. Lacoon compares us to large language models where he says

they mainly predict the next word based on patterns in the text, right?

So think of world models as something along the lines of common sense, let's say, common sense knowledge of the world.

The development is directed at cause and effect in real environments.

That basically means it has a potential to be very impactful, not only just

for general AI applications, as Jan Lakun believes, but also, once we start getting into,

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