AMD Buys World Labs, the Firm Founded by AI ‘Godmother’ Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 Billion
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the world-model start-up founded by Fei-Fei Li, the ‘godmother of AI’, in an all-stock deal worth about $8.2 billion, with Li becoming AMD’s chief scientist. We set out the terms, what World Labs builds, how its value climbed, why a chipmaker wants a model lab, where Nvidia fits and what it means for businesses.
