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[Alpha Biz= Paul Lee] Doosan Group will invest €5.8 million in AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence) Labs, an AI startup founded by Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University and one of the world’s leading pioneers in deep learning.
Doosan said on March 11 that the investment will be made through an overseas project fund managed by global venture capital firm SBVA, with Doosan Corp. investing €3.8 million and Doosan Investment €2 million as limited partners.
AMI Labs is developing a “world model” AI architecture based on self-supervised learning and Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA), aiming to enable AI systems to understand and reason about the physical world in a human-like manner.
World models are designed to interpret real-world physical laws and predict future outcomes, addressing limitations of existing large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) that struggle with causal reasoning and physical understanding. The technology is considered essential for the development of physical AI.
The funding round also includes prominent investors such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Nvidia, and other global institutional investors.
SBVA will act as a strategic partner connecting AMI with Asia’s industrial ecosystem, supporting technology validation through large corporate networks and promoting collaboration with startups in areas such as robotics, manufacturing and AI.
Alphabiz Reporter Paul Lee(hoondork1977@alphabiz.co.kr)
