GoKawiilAMD to acquire World Labs, Fei-Fei Li named Chief Scientist
World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by AMD, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2026 pending regulatory approval. Founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su, while co-founders Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall continue leading the World Labs team within AMD.
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The deal deepens AMD's push into AI research beyond chip hardware, potentially giving it in-house frontier research talent to compete with Nvidia's software and model ecosystem. World Labs' spatial-intelligence research could help AMD build a broader integrated stack spanning hardware, models, and applications, according to the companies' stated plans.
- World Labs, founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li, is being acquired by AMD.
- Fei-Fei Li becomes AMD's Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President under CEO Lisa Su.
- The acquisition builds on a prior AMD-World Labs partnership on GPU training and inference, expected to close by end of 2026.
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