Inside Changwon’s Physical AI Bet With Korea’s Industrial Giants
What Changed and Why It Matters South Korea is shifting from software-first AI to machines that act. The country calls it “physical AI.” Changwon, its factory capital, is becoming the…
Why South Korea Is Becoming the Global Hub for Physical AI Systems
What Changed and Why It Matters South Korea is reorganizing its AI strategy around the physical world. Cities, ministries, and chaebols are aligning to turn Korea into a proving ground…
Yann LeCun, executive chairman of AMI Labs, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. India kicked off one of the world's largest artificial intelligence summits this week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to make the country an AI hub amid intense competition to develop frontier models. Photographer: Ruhani Kaur/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Yann LeCun’s $1B AMI Labs bet on world models—beyond LLMs
What Changed and Why It Matters Yann LeCun just left Meta and raised $1.03B to build AMI Labs in Paris. The thesis: “world models” will unlock agents that understand and…