AMD to Acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for ~$8.2B in Stock, Installing Her as Chief Scientist
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-29
AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, for roughly $8.2B in stock, with Li joining AMD as chief scientist.
- The price represents about a 64% premium over the $5B valuation talks around World Labs' $1B February round, which both AMD and Nvidia joined
- World Labs gains AMD's compute and engineering depth to fuel its world-model research
- AMD acquires a team of about 70 researchers, gaining insight into reasoning, robotics, simulation and physical AI workloads to shape future hardware roadmaps
- CEO Lisa Su framed the deal as key to building compute platforms for next-generation AI and strengthening the open AI ecosystem
It marks the first time a major chipmaker directly acquires a frontier AI model lab, tightly coupling compute with model research.
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