GoKawiilAMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion in all-stock deal
AMD announced an agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI lab building 3D 'world models' founded by researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion. Li will join AMD as chief scientist and executive vice president, while World Labs will operate separately from AMD's chip business until the deal closes later this year.
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World models simulate physics-aware 3D environments that researchers say could help train robots and other physical AI systems, giving AMD exposure to a frontier research area beyond chip design. Bringing Li's team in-house could let AMD shape its future AI chip roadmap around the demands of such models years ahead of deployment. The deal, AMD's second-largest ever after its Xilinx acquisition, signals how aggressively chipmakers are pursuing AI research talent and technology.
- AMD is acquiring World Labs for about $8.2 billion in an all-stock transaction.
- Founder Fei-Fei Li will become AMD's chief scientist and an executive vice president.
- It's AMD's second-largest acquisition ever, after the roughly $50 billion Xilinx deal.
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