{"id":322126,"date":"2026-03-10T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:31:12","slug":"toyota-group-nvidia-invest-1bn-in-former-meta-ai-scientists-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322126\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Group, Nvidia invest $1bn in former Meta AI scientist&#8217;s startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260310 AMI Lecun\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Advanced Machine Intelligence, founded by AI expert Yann LeCun has raised about $1 billion from Toyota&#8217;s investment unit and Nvidia.\u00a0(Source photo by Suzu Takahashi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PALO ALTO, California &#8212; A French startup founded by leading AI researcher Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion (890 million euros) from Toyota Motor&#8217;s venture capital arm and Nvidia, LeCun told Nikkei on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advanced Machine Intelligence, founded by AI expert Yann LeCun has raised about $1 billion from Toyota&#8217;s investment unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[116688,365,363,364,2740,209,15472,898,111,139,1042,69,9433,1037,145,1733],"class_list":["post-322126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-1bn","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-former","tag-group","tag-invest","tag-meta","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nvidia","tag-nz","tag-scientists","tag-startup","tag-technology","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}