Claim: Fei-Fei Li's team acquired by AMD, general world models seen as far off
aigclink · x · 2026-09-30
X user @aigclink claims (unverified) that Fei-Fei Li's team has been acquired by AMD, and reads it as a blow to the physical/world-model track: general-purpose physical models look unlikely in the short term, with the field more likely to replay AI 1.0's path — first accumulating scenario-specific physical models before any generalization becomes viable. The author also questions the compression thesis itself: spatial and temporal data may not be compressible and recoverable, casting doubt on whether mainstream world models' compression-based approach can work at all.
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