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World Labs

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AI startup building specialised "world models" to construct 3D environments for robotics, factories and scientific simulation.

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Dr Fei-Fei Li

Co‑founder / Executive Vice President & Chief Scientist (joining AMD)

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A woman founder just sold her AI startup to a woman CEO for $8.2 billion in a deal set to challenge the male-dominated sector
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A woman founder just sold her AI startup to a woman CEO for $8.2 billion in a deal set to challenge the male-dominated sector

Dr Fei‑Fei Li has sold her AI startup World Labs to AMD in an $8.2 billion stock deal; Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist reporting to CEO Dr Lisa Su. The acquisition pairs World Labs' world-model software expertise with AMD's hardware capabilities to better challenge Nvidia.

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Total Funding

$8.2 billion

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acquired

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