Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) is building a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and safe.
The company has raised a US$1.03 billion from global investors. This round was co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions and other investors and angels across the world.
AMI is also supported by a group of long-term global investors and strategic backers, including Toyota Ventures, New Legacy Ventures, Temasek, SBVA, NVIDIA, Mark Cuban, Association Familiale Mulliez, Groupe industriel Marcel Dassault, Sea, and Alpha Intelligence Capital.
Additional significant participation comes from Eric Schmidt, Aglaé Lab, ZEBOX Ventures, Artémis, Xavier Niel, Publicis Groupe, Samsung, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Jim Breyer, Tim & Rosemary Berners-Lee, and Mark Leslie.
“We are a growing team of researchers and builders, operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore from day one,” the company said.
AMI’s main goal is to build intelligent systems that understand the real world where data is continuous, high-dimensional, and noisy, whether it is obtained through cameras or any other sensor modality.
Generative architectures trained by self-supervised learning to predict the future have been astonishingly successful for language understanding and generation. But much of real-world sensor data is unpredictable, and generative approaches do not work well.
AMI is developing world models that learn abstract representations of real-world sensor data, ignoring unpredictable details, and that make predictions in representation space.
Action-conditioned world models allow agentic systems to predict the consequences of their actions, and to plan action sequences to accomplish a task, subject to safety guardrails.
AMI will advance AI research and develop applications where reliability, controllability, and safety really matter, especially for industrial process control, automation, wearable devices, robotics, healthcare, and beyond.
