$8.2 Billion for Spatial Intelligence Start-up

⊲ The Register ⊳ AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco spatial intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li in 2024, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion and expected to close by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval. World Labs builds world models that generate, reconstruct and simulate 3D environments from text, image and video inputs, rather than predicting the next word as large language models do. Li will become AMD executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su.
◂ World models that generate and simulate 3D environments put simulation itself at the heart of AI, rather than a niche application sitting beside it. ▸
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