AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs to Bet Big on World Models
realSharonZhou · x · 2026-09-29
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced that World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, is joining AMD. Su said the deal combines World Labs' deep expertise in AI and world models with AMD's compute leadership to "power the future of AI and strengthen the open AI ecosystem."
- A landmark acquisition pairing a major AI hardware vendor with one of the most prominent founders in AI (Stanford professor, ImageNet creator).
- a16z partner Martin Casado, who helped incubate the company, wrote a rare retrospective describing nearly three years from the founding table to early open-source releases and new model architectures pushing state of the art.
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