[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
AMD is buying World Labs for $8.2 billion, while Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5.
AMD is acquiring World Labs, Fei-Fei Li’s spatial-intelligence startup founded in 2024, for $8.2 billion. Its Atlas model predicts new camera views from sparse 2D images by combining generative models with multiview geometry, with uses in robotics, design, and reconstruction; World Labs also acquired SceniX for robotics simulation. Separately, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, claiming it is more than 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper than Sonnet 5, and it now powers the free tier on claude.ai. Haiku 5.5 is expected in the coming weeks.
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