In November, Yann LeCun, one of the world’s foremost AI experts, announced he would leave his role as Meta’s chief AI scientist to start his own company, focused on building a new type of AI called world models. He’s now executive chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, which is seeking to raise funds at a valuation of some $3.5 billion. But he made a seemingly unusual choice for CEO: Alex LeBrun, cofounder of a health tech startup based in Paris that uses AI to transcribe doctor visits.

That might sound like a niche choice for an AI lab. But it indicates the buzzy company, whose tech attempts to understand the world by learning from videos and spatial data as well as text, will have a significant emphasis on healthcare. Its first announced partnership will be with LeBrun’s company, Nabla.

“Healthcare is my baby, and we know what problems we cannot solve today,” LeBrun said in an interview on the sidelines of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco. “We hope that this new branch [of AI] will help us move beyond what we can do today in healthcare.”

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