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What Happened AMI Labs, co-founded by Yann LeCun and led by CEO Alexandre LeBrun (former CEO of medical AI company Nabla), secured $1.03 billion in March 2026 to develop what researchers call “world models” - AI systems designed to understand how the physical world operates. The funding round, which values the company at $3.5 billion before the investment, marks the largest seed funding round for a European AI startup in history.
What Happened Caitlin Kalinowski, who has been spearheading OpenAI’s robotics division, announced her resignation in direct response to the company’s recent partnership with the Pentagon. As a hardware executive, Kalinowski was instrumental in OpenAI’s expansion beyond language models into physical AI systems and robotics applications. The timing of her departure is particularly significant, coming as OpenAI has been aggressively expanding its robotics capabilities and exploring how its AI models can be integrated with physical hardware systems.