AMD agrees to buy World Labs for $8.2 billion

AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence research company founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and standard closing conditions. World Labs develops AI models that can generate, reconstruct, and simulate …

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World Labs’ Atlas promises to turn a few images into controllable 3D worlds

World Labs has unveiled Atlas, a multimodal AI model designed to generate, reconstruct, and simulate scenes in three dimensions. The World Labs Team announces Atlas in an official blog post, describing it as a system that works with text, images, video, camera positions, and depth data in a shared spatial context. The company says Atlas …

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Leading AI labs disagree on the meaning of ‘world model’

Top researchers and companies in artificial intelligence, including Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, Meta’s Yann LeCun, and Google DeepMind, are all promoting technology they call a “world model”. However, the term is being used to describe three fundamentally different approaches to building AI that can understand and interact with the world. An analysis by Entropy Town …

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World Labs launches Marble, a commercial world model for creating 3D environments

World Labs, the AI startup founded by researcher Fei-Fei Li, has released Marble, its first commercial product. Marble is a world model that generates editable 3D environments from various inputs including text prompts, images, videos, 3D layouts, and panoramas. The product is now publicly available through freemium and paid subscription tiers. The launch positions World …

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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li fascinated by “spatial intelligence”

Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” has founded a startup called World Labs. The company aims to develop AI systems that can construct complete worlds with the physics, logic, and details of our physical reality. Despite an alleged slowdown in the AI sector, investors have already poured $230 million into the project, valuing …

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