One of contemporary AI's most influential researchers is now at the center of AMD's $8 milliard bet on physical AI.
AMD stated Monday it had accepted to get World Labs, a San Francisco startup cofounded in 2024 by Stanford prof Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock agreement appreciated at approximately $8.2 billion.
World Labs is construction so-called "world models," AI systems that can create and rebuild interactive 3D environments from text, images, and video. The innovation could eventually be used to train robots, simulate factories, and advancement specialized research.
Li, frequently called the “godmother of AI,” is finest known for creating ImageNet, a enormous repository of tagged images that helped display how additional data could dramatically enhance device vision. She afterward served as chief researcher for AI and device learning at Google Cloud and became the founding co-director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
Earlier this month, World Labs released Atlas, a new AI example designed to foretell how a environment would appearance from a distinct camera viewpoint using a small set of 2D images. The business compares the method to how ample tongue models foretell the next term in a sentence.
AMD CEO Lisa Su stated in a media publish that the acquisition would provision the chipmaker deeper understanding into how cutting-edge AI models are evolving, assisting it build the chips and computing systems needed to power them. AMD is one of Nvidia's biggest rivals in the AI part market.
As part of the agreement, Li volition associate AMD as administrator vice chairman and chief scientist, reporting to Su.
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