Very impressed by Armani's trajectory
Started Anchor which became the standard way to build Solana programs. Then launched Backpack directly into the FTX collapse, and then spent three years chewing glass with little to no narrative behind him
In hindsight the obvious bet was always Armani. Very few founders can go through what he and Backpack went through and still maintain the psychological endurance to keep building
Iโm not an investor but the ability to absorb that many setbacks and stay motivated is one of the cleanest signals of a great founder
Do you understand what just happened?
The man who told you LLMs aren't real intelligence just raised $1 billion to build what he thinks IS.
> @ylecun said "The AI we have right now, Every single one of them are glorified autocomplete" and he said this for 2 years straight
> The entire internet called him a boomer
> AI fans ratio'd him basically every week
> He didn't argue back
> He just raised a billion dollars and started building
He launched AMI Labs, Advanced Machine Intelligence to build something called world models. AI that actually understands reality, not just predicts the next word and hopes it sounds right.
Will he reach AGI first? Here's why he might, everyone else is trying to brute-force intelligence by feeding more text into bigger models.
LeCun is building AI the way humans actually learn.
A baby doesn't learn physics by reading a textbook. It drops a cup and watches it fall. That's what world models do and that's a different species of AI entirely.
The actual future just got funded. And it looks nothing like what you've been paying for.