Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
TechCrunch AI Kate Park
Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of AMI Labs, rejects industry terminology like 'AGI' and 'superintelligence' as poorly defined and unhelpful for describing his work on world models. AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion in March at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation but has no product yet and is scouting partnerships in South Korea for access to real-world robotics and manufacturing environments. The startup aims to build AI systems that understand physical environments and enable safer, context-aware robots for applications where LLMs alone are insufficient.
Why it matters
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
