AMI Labs

AMI Labs, formally Advanced Machine Intelligence, is a frontier artificial intelligence research lab focused on building systems that understand the real world. The company describes its goal as developing AI with persistent memory, the ability to reason and plan, and controllability and safety. It presents its work as a different direction from systems centered primarily on language, emphasizing learning from the continuous, high-dimensional and often noisy data produced by cameras and other sensors.

The lab is developing world models that learn abstract representations of real-world sensor data and make predictions in representation space. AMI says this approach is intended to focus on meaningful structure while disregarding unpredictable details in sensor inputs. Its work also includes action-conditioned world models, which can estimate the consequences of possible actions and support planning sequences of actions to achieve a task within safety guardrails.

AMI describes its intended applications as areas where reliability, controllability and safety matter. Examples named by the company include industrial process control, automation, wearable devices, robotics and healthcare. The company also says it aims to advance AI research and develop applications, though its public materials do not identify specific commercial products or customers.

The company’s public launch was announced on March 10, 2026. AMI says it was founded by a team of scientists, engineers and builders, and describes itself as a research lab operating internationally from its outset. Its launch announcement reported a $1.03 billion funding round, co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with additional investors and strategic supporters listed in the announcement.

AMI identifies Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore as its locations. Its public website does not specify a single corporate headquarters, so these locations should not be taken as a formal headquarters designation. The company describes its team as researchers and builders and invites collaboration with industry partners, product developers and the global academic research community through open publications and open source.

AMI’s stated point of view is that real intelligence starts in the world rather than in language. Its public materials emphasize research into systems that can understand environments, retain useful information over time, plan and act safely. The company’s website invites people who share that vision to join the team, but does not provide further detailed information about internal working practices or employee culture.