AMD has agreed to buy AI research firm World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion, pending regulatory approval. World Labs co-founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su. World Labs builds spatial-intelligence models that generate and simulate 3D environments, and had already collaborated with AMD on optimizing its Instinct hardware and ROCm software.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-30
AMD and World Labs announced AMD will acquire the AI startup by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval, in a deal valued at $8.2 billion. World Labs, founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li and colleagues with $230 million in funding including from AMD, builds world models such as Marble and Atlas that generate 3D scenes from video data.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-29
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the startup founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, in a stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion, making it AMD's second-largest acquisition. World Labs builds 'world models' that simulate 3D physical environments for robotics and other embodied AI systems. Li will join AMD as chief scientist and executive vice president once the deal closes later this year, with World Labs operating separately from AMD's chip business until then.
slashdot.org
· 2026-09-28
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.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-28
AMD announced an $8.2 billion deal to acquire World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li that builds deep learning models focused on understanding physical reality. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, deepening a partnership the two companies formed last year around inference optimization and training.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-28
AMD announced it will acquire World Labs in a deal valued at $8.2 billion. AMD said the acquisition brings in AI research and development talent to strengthen its hardware, software, and systems capabilities, particularly in physical AI and robotics.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-28
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.
worldlabs.ai
· 2026-09-28
AMD announced an all-stock deal to acquire World Labs, the AI research startup co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, valuing the company at roughly $8.2 billion. World Labs, founded in 2024 and previously valued at $1 billion, released its Marble tool this year for generating interactive 3D worlds from text prompts. The deal is expected to close by year's end, with Li joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist under CEO Lisa Su.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-28
At the All In conference, AMI Labs co-founder Michael Rabbatt declined to detail his company's product roadmap for its spatial-intelligence 'world model' technology, saying only that AMI will discuss plans 'when we're ready.' World Labs, maker of the Marble platform, has shown demos in gaming, media and CGI but has not clarified a clear commercial direction, and even data supplier Physicl's CEO Alex de Vigan says he doesn't know exactly how his company's data is being used.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-18
World Labs introduced Atlas, a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer pretrained from scratch to jointly handle text, images, video, and 3D data within a shared spatial context. The model can generate camera-controlled videos up to one minute at 1440p, reconstruct real-world scenes from sparse imagery into novel views and explicit 3D, and simulate space-time from video for effects and robotics workflows.
worldlabs.ai
· 2026-09-01
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