AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for ~$8.2B in Stock, Installing Her as Chief Scientist
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-29
AMD has reportedly agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in stock, with Li installed as chief scientist. That's 64% above the $5B valuation discussed for World Labs' $1B February round, which both AMD and Nvidia joined. World Labs gains the compute and engineering depth its world-model research demands, while AMD adds 70 researchers and a spatial-intelligence bet. The post also quotes Li's philosophical jab at LLM-centric AI: "The universe isn't made up of words; it's made of real things." (unconfirmed deal)
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