224 Ventures Launches $100M AI Fund With Yann LeCun Co-Leading

AIX Ventures establishes $100M 224 Ventures fund targeting AI-native teams. Yann LeCun and Oriol Vinyals co-lead, backed by 244 industry LPs.

Woofun AI reports that AIX Ventures co-founder Shaun Johnson has launched 224 Ventures, a $100 million artificial intelligence fund. The entity plans to deploy between $1 million and $5 million per investment into AI-native teams, focusing on applications, robotics, infrastructure, and core intelligence. The fund is supported by 244 limited partners, primarily from the AI sector, including researchers and corporate executives. Former Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun and former Google DeepMind researcher Oriol Vinyals will co-lead the fund. LeCun also serves as Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, a startup focused on "world model" technology that has secured over $1 billion in seed financing.