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AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2B; Fei-Fei Li to become EVP and chief scientist

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AMD announced an all-stock acquisition of World Labs, the AI research lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, for approximately $8.2 billion. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su, and the deal is expected to close by the end of the year. World Labs, launched in 2024 and valued at $1 billion within months, released its first commercial product, the world generation model Marble, in 2025.

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  1. Techmeme

    Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg : AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist — Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining an artificial intelligence startup founded …

  2. TechCrunch AITim Fernholz

    The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

  3. The Verge AIJay Peters

    World Labs co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li. | Bloomberg via Getty Images AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation model called Marble that lets users make interactive 3D worlds from a prompt, in 2025 . The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. Li will become EVP and chief scientist at AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Lisa Su, while the World Labs team will "continue to focus on advancing AI model research." AMD also notes t … Read the full story at The Verge.

  4. 机器之心机器之心

    这周一,炸裂的新闻来了! AMD 宣布收购李飞飞空间智能与世界模型创业公司 World Labs! 据报道,这笔交易为全股票交易,估值约 82 亿美元 。 以下为李飞飞官宣内容完整翻译: World Labs 将加入 AMD。 这对 World Labs、我们的团队,以及我个人而言,都是一个意义重大的时刻。我想借此机会谈谈,这件事意味着什么,以及为什么我对即将开启的新篇章如此兴奋。 “来吧,我的朋友们,现在去寻找一个更新的世界,还为时未晚。” —— 丁尼生勋爵,《尤利西斯》 一段关于成长的故事 对我而言,AI 既是一件非常个人的事,也关乎整个人类文明。 2000 年,我刚刚成为研究生,带着对一个问题的好奇进入了这个领域:如何让机器和大脑拥有视觉智能。那时的我并不知道,这其实是我职业生涯的起点,而这段职业生涯后来 —— 连我自己都感到惊讶 —— 始终处在 AI 从萌芽走向成熟的中心位置。我的实验室早期开展的 ImageNet 工作,与神经网络算法以及这些算法在 GPU 上的实现一道,推动了现代 AI 时代的到来。从那以后,我整个职业生涯都在推动 AI 从一种主要存在于学术研究中的探索对象,逐步发展为这个时代最具创新性、也最具变革性的技术之一。 这些年来,从计算机视觉、深度学习、机器人和医疗健康研究,到担任 Google Cloud AI 部门的首席科学家并参与创建该部门,再到成为斯坦福大学以人为本人工智能研究院(Stanford HAI)的创始院长,我始终希望与人类携手,用技术解决现实世界中的问题,为社会带来更好的结果。 当生成式 AI 开始推动新一轮变革,而大规模前沿 AI 研究逐渐从学术界转向产业界时,我意识到,想要创造最深远、最广泛的积极影响,最值得走的一条路,就是创办一家初创公司,去攻克最具雄心的技术难题。 2024 年初,我与两位出色的联合创始人 Ben Mildenhall 和 Justin Johnson 一起创立了 World Labs。他们都是世界级 AI 研究者,并且都曾以重要方式推动这个领域向前发展。 我们的目标,是建立一家专注于 AI 最重要挑战之一的前沿实验室。如果这些问题能够被解决,将大幅提升 AI 处理现实世界问题的能力。 世界并不只是由文字构成 我们创办这家公司时,有一个最基本的信念:仅靠语言,并不足以支撑模型的发展。 宇宙并不是由文字

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