AMD Acquires Dr. Fei Fei Li's World Labs

Fei-Fei Li announces that World Labs, the frontier AI startup she co‑founded in 2024 with Ben Mildenhall and Justin Johnson, is joining AMD. World Labs focused on spatial intelligence - building foundation models that reason about 3D structure and physical scenes rather than just language. The team developed Atlas, an "omni" model trained from scratch to predict new camera views from 2D images, combining generative modeling with multiview geometry to effectively solve sparse reconstruction and outperform specialized baselines. World Labs also assembled a leading training team for images, video and spatial reconstruction and acquired SceniX to advance robotics simulation; Atlas has attracted use cases in robotics RL, scene generation for therapy and entertainment, and real‑world reconstruction for design, construction and real estate.

The move into AMD aims to scale those capabilities by integrating software, models and hardware: World Labs and AMD already partnered on GPU training and inference optimizations, and AMD CEO Lisa Su was an early supporter. Fei‑Fei Li will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist to lead a durable frontier research organization that couples AMD hardware with open models, platforms and data infrastructure. The stated mission is to accelerate applied spatial AI for domains such as drug discovery, creativity, education and next‑generation robotics.