Pedro Domingos: World Labs is really a computer graphics company, but valuation would collapse if they admitted it
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-03
Prominent ML scholar Pedro Domingos delivered a pointed take: World Labs (Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence startup) is essentially a computer graphics company — but if they called it that, its valuation would collapse. The implication is that its valuation rides on the AI narrative rather than the substance of its graphics technology.
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