Overview
Spatial intelligence company founded by Stanford AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li. Builds Large World Models that perceive, generate, reason, and interact with 3D physical worlds. First product Marble generates explorable 3D virtual worlds from a single image, video, or text prompt. Acquired robotics simulation startup SceniX in July 2026 to extend its technology from virtual worlds to real-world robot training.
Reality check
AMD acquisition (company-claimed)
Sep 2026: AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, expected to close by end of 2026 subject to approvals.
Post-close plans (company-claimed)
The team continues model research; co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as EVP and chief scientist under Lisa Su.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDAcquisitionAcquired by AMD
Key facts
Technology
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
2
Web sources
2
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Partnerships
Every company World Labs has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1AMD1× joint
- 2Cisco1× joint
- 3SceniX1× joint
Most recent
- World Labs x SceniX (acquisition)2026-07-21with SceniXoperating
- with AMDjust announced
- with Ciscojust announced
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Fei-Fei Li Co-founder & CEO, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Justin Johnson Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Ben Mildenhall Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (4)
- Justin Johnsoncofounderno longer at company
- Fei-Fei Licofounderno longer at company
later founded Google
- Christoph Lassnercofounderno longer at company
- Ben Mildenhallcofounderno longer at company
previously at Google
Former / Previously (1)
- Christoph Lassner Co-foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for World Labs.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Brains developed (1)
- Marbleworld-model · commercial
Recent coverage
World Labs in third-party press
Mentioned on (7)
Registry pages whose text names World Labs.
Companies (1)
Robots and products (1)
AI systems (1)
People (4)
Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, Christoph Lassner, Fei-Fei Li
Financial state
- Total funding
- $1.2B
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Partnerships
3 total · 1 operating · 2 just announced
Every company World Labs has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- World Labs x SceniX (acquisition)2026-07-21with SceniXoperating
- with AMDjust announced
- with Ciscojust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1AMD1× joint
- 2Cisco1× joint
- 3SceniX1× joint
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- World Labs x SceniX (acquisition)withSceniXinvestment2026-07-21operating
- investment2026-02-18just announced
- investment2025-11-20just announced
Funding rounds (2)
World Labs’s 2 disclosed rounds, $1.2B in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2026-02-18
$1.0B(reported)
Investors: AMD (strategic), Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Nvidia (strategic), Sea, Fidelity Investments
- Series A2024-09-13
$230M(reported)
Investors: NEA (lead), Radical Ventures (lead), NVentures (NVIDIA) (strategic), AMD Ventures (strategic), Adobe Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Marc Benioff, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (lead)
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by AMDfull acquisitionannounced2026-09-28
Timeline
Every recorded move in World Labs’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipWorld Labs x SceniX (acquisition)
2026-07-21World Labs acquired SceniX, a robotics simulation company, to extend its spatial intelligence technology from virtual worlds to real-world robot training via real-to-sim-to-real (R2S2R) methodology.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2026-02-18Series B raising $1000000000
PartnershipAMD x World Labs (strategic investment & compute partnership)
2026-02-18AMD Ventures invested in World Labs' Series B and partnered on workload optimization for spatial intelligence and world models on AMD Instinct GPUs, with AMD CEO Lisa Su and Fei-Fei Li appearing together at CES 2026.
PartnershipCisco x World Labs (strategic investment)
2025-11-20Cisco Investments made a strategic investment in World Labs to accelerate development of Large World Models for 3D spatial intelligence, with Cisco positioning itself as critical infrastructure provider for the AI era.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-09-13Series A raising $230000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 9, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (5)
- https://www.worldlabs.ai
- https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-acquire-world-labs/ · 2026-09-28
- https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001749/amd-world-labs-ai-acquisition-deal · 2026-09-28
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/amd-fei-fei-li-world-labs.html · 2026-09-28
- https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2104665621120311465 · 2026-09-28
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
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Sources by quality tier
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- unclassified
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- Industry publication
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- secondary-established-publication
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Methodology surface for World Labs.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning World Labs from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
AMD to acquire World Labs in deal worth $8.2 billion
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AMD Expands AI Expertise With World Labs Acquisition
AMD earned positive marks from Wall Street for its planned $8.2 billion acquisition of AI model builder World Labs. The post AMD Expands AI Expertise With World Labs Acquisition…
AMD buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn
Li will become AMD's new chief scientist and executive vice-president. Read more: AMD buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn
AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the AI research lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. World Labs develops…
AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs AI startup for $8.2 billion
World Labs develops AI software that can run applications in the physical world.
AMD To Acquire World Labs For $8.2 Billion To Advance AI Compute And Spatial Intelligence
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion, adding the AI research company founded and led by AI researcher Dr. Fei-Fei…
AMD to Acquire World Labs in $8.2B All-Stock Deal
Insider Brief AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion, adding the spatial-intelligence startup’s AI research team as the…
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion in major AI push
AMD is spending $8.2 billion in stock to acquire World Labs, the two-year-old AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, bringing one of AI’s best-known researchers inside the chipmaker as…
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs debuts Atlas, a world model showcase for advanced spatial intelligence
World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which…
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Video
In the beginning of the universe, all was darkness — until the first organisms developed sight, which ushered in an explosion of life, learning and progress. AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says a similar moment is about to happen
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Fei-Fei Li, Co-Founder & CEO at World Labs discusses spatial intelligence, large world models and real-world AI applications with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang at Blo
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Heat Index
Category contender81/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place World Labs against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $1.2B raised and recent funding activity. Broad public reach with 1.3M video views.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
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