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AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's world-model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion, challenging Nvidia's robotics simulation lead.

AMD announced it will acquire World Labs by year-end pending regulatory approval in a transaction valued at $8.2 billion. World Labs was founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li with Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner and Ben Mildenhall, raising $230 million including AMD investment, and builds world models that simulate physical environments, shipping tools like Marble (Gaussian-splat 3D space generation) and Atlas. The deal targets synthetic training data for robotics, where AMD lacks a competitor to Nvidia's Cosmos stack despite its open-source Micro-World model.

Ars Technica · AISep 29, 21:14 UTC · 3h agoAI industry 5 sources

AMD buys AI world model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion

AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's world-model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock, hiring Li as Chief Scientist to challenge Nvidia.

AMD is acquiring spatial-intelligence startup World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion, expected to close by the end of 2026. Founder Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as EVP and Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su. World Labs, founded in 2024 with about 70 employees, builds world models such as Atlas, which generates and simulates 3D scenes from a few images. AMD aims to use the team's model expertise to shape future AI hardware roadmaps and narrow the gap with Nvidia.

The Decoderupdated Sep 29, 21:14 UTC · 3h agofirst Sep 29, 17:13 UTC · 7h agoAI industry 5 sources

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AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

AMD buys AI world model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion