Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner and former chief AI scientist at Meta, has joined 224 Ventures, a venture capital fund dedicated to early-stage artificial intelligence startups. The fund, launched on August 5 with over 100 million dollars in assets under management, also features Oriol Vinyals, formerly technical co-lead on Google’s Gemini model at DeepMind. AMI Labs, the new structure founded by LeCun after his departure from Meta in November 2025, raised a 1.03 billion dollar seed round in early 2026. The entry of this purely AI-focused fund could make fundraising more challenging for crypto ventures without an AI angle, as institutional capital increasingly pivots toward artificial intelligence.
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