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World Labs, which raised roughly $1 billion in funding, is one of several richly funded startups betting on world models
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Key facts
- World Labs, which raised roughly $1 billion in funding, is one of several richly funded startups betting on world models
- Chipmaker AMD is acquiring World Labs, a two-year-old startup focused on physical AI that was cofounded by industry pioneer Fei-Fei Li
- Together, we’ll combine 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,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said
- World Labs and AMD began a “deep technical partnership” last year focused on model training and inference optimizations on AMD’s GPU chips, Li said
Summary
Chipmaker AMD is acquiring World Labs, a two-year-old startup focused on physical AI that was cofounded by industry pioneer Fei-Fei Li. The acquisition will help AMD—which makes the GPU chips crucial for training and running AI models—design its products for the evolving applications of AI, and help it better compete with archrival Nvidia, which is also expanding into physical AI. “Together, we’ll combine 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,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said in a post on X announcing the deal. The deal brings together two of the leading women in the AI industry: AMD’s Su and World Labs’ Li, who is sometimes referred to as the “godmother of AI” for her work two decades ago creating ImageNet, a massive visual database that helped make deep learning possible. “Without having a focused hardware effort, AI is hobbled in efficiency.