Fei-Fei Li talks world models, robotics training, and World Labs’ SceniX deal
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-07-28
A16Z’s podcast features Fei-Fei Li and Yunzhu Li discussing World Labs’ acquisition of SceniX and what it says about the next wave of AI.
The conversation focuses on spatial intelligence and why robotics may need a different training paradigm from language models. Key themes include:
- why World Labs bought SceniX
- how simulation can support real-to-sim-to-real robotics pipelines
- world models and robotics foundation models
- evaluation for embodied AI
- the role of synthetic data in training systems that understand the physical world
The episode argues that the future of AI depends not just on language understanding, but on building systems that can perceive and interact with the physical world.
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