Bet on the Physical World AI: AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's Team and the Spatial Large Model Atlas
AMD announced it will acquire AI startup World Labs through a stock deal, valued at about 8.2 billion US dollars. After the transaction, co-founder and Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li will serve as AMD's Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, working with Chairman and CEO Sue Mi Terry to advance cutting-edge AI strategies. World Labs was founded by Fei-Fei Li, Ben Mildenhall, and Justin Johnson in early 2024, aiming to break through the boundaries of traditional language models and build AI that can understand and reason about the physical world.