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Konnichiwa. Bonjour. Hello everyone.

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It is a great honor to address you today,
and I'm truly sorry I cannot be

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there in person. What we're launching in

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Tokyo on July 16th is exactly the kind

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of bold, forward-looking initiative that

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the world needs at this precise moment
in the history of AI. My name is Yann

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LeCun. I am a professor at New York

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University, uh chairman and co-founder

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of Advanced Machine Intelligence, which

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we call AMI, and a recipient of the

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Turing Award. Prior to AMI, I spent 12

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years at Meta, where I founded FAIR,

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Meta's Fundamental AI Research Lab, and

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served as Chief AI Scientist.

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For many years, I've been fortunate
to contribute to the development of modern

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AI and deep learning. Early in my

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career, I've been inspired by the

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foundational work of Professor Amari and

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Fukushima on neural networks from the

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1970s and 1980s. Today, my focus is on

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helping build the next generation of AI

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systems capable of understanding and

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interacting with the real world.

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We are at a turning point.
For the last 5 years,

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artificial intelligence through
generative models has been largely a

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disembodied technology.

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It's extraordinarily good at processing

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human language, computer code, and

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mathematics, but fundamentally unable
to apprehend the physical world.

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The next frontier in AI will change that.
It's about building AI systems

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that can perceive,
reason about, and act in any

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environment. Systems that understand

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causality, physical reality, and the

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constraints of the real world.

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This is physical AI, and it may well
be the most important scientific and

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engineering challenge of our generation.

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Getting there requires new
architectures, systems that learn not

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just from text and other sequences of

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symbols, but from real-world sensor data

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that is continuous,
high-dimensional, and noisy.

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Like video, for example. AI models that

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build an internal representation of the

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world and are capable of predicting the

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consequences of their action will be a

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centerpiece of that new revolution.

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At Emmy, this is precisely the mission

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that we are pursuing, building agent AI

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systems around the concept of world

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models. The world model with world model
AI systems can predict the evolution of

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their environment, predict
the consequences of their own actions,

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and plan a sequence of actions
to accomplish a particular task.

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This will enable countless new
applications in industry, such as

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manufacturing. It will also
enable a new generation of

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autonomous robots capable of operating

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in complex unstructured environment.

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These robots will go beyond scripted

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recipes and will be able to apprehend

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new situations and accomplish new tasks

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without prior training. More generally,

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physical AI systems will help operate

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infrastructure, manage grids in real

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time, and accelerate the transition to

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sustainable resilient energy at scale.

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These are not distant promises.

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The foundational work is happening now,

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and Japan is uniquely positioned

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to be at the center of it.
Decades of mastery in precision

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manufacturing, industrial robotics, and

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engineering excellence have given Japan

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exactly the foundation that physical
AI demands. The factory floor, the

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automated plant,
the industrial environment, these are

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training grounds for the next
generation of intelligent systems. In the

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application of physical AI, Japan does

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not need to catch up. Japan needs to

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lead, but no country does this alone.

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The challenges ahead require

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genuine international collaboration
between researchers, between industries,

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between governments.
What you are initiating today is a

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signal to the world that Japan is ready
to be a full partner in shaping this

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future. I'm deeply excited about what we

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can build together, and I look forward

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to working alongside Japan's scientists

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and engineers and policymakers
to create AI systems that don't just

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understand the world, but can truly act

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in it, improve it, and help us all

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thrive within it. Thank you.
Merci beaucoup. Arigato gozaimasu.