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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding
World Labs secured $1 billion to advance spatial AI with Autodesk’s $200 million investment, targeting media, robotics, and scientific discovery applications.
- World Labs closed a $1 billion funding round on February 18, 2026, with Autodesk Inc. investing $200 million in the startup.
- Late last year, World Labs released Marble, a multimodal world model that creates editable 3D worlds, reflecting spatial intelligence, after raising $230 million in 2024.
- Starting with media and entertainment use cases, Autodesk will serve as an adviser and said data sharing is not part of the agreement, while its neural CAD is already moving into product design tools.
- With the new funding, investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Sea steer World Labs toward robotics and scientific discovery.
- Bloomberg reported talks at about a $5 billion valuation as World Labs joins Google DeepMind and AMI Labs pursuing world models that reason about environments.
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World Labs, From a Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Fei-Fei Li, Raise Us$ 1 Billion with Investors
The startup said investors included AMD and Nvidia chip companies, Autodesk software producer, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Sea, Shope controller, among others
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World Labs Lands $1 Billion Round Backed By Nvidia, AMD, And Autodesk
World Labs, the startup co-founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion in new funding. The company shared the news on February 18, 2026. The round reflects rising interest in “world models,” AI systems built to understand, simulate, and act in 3D physical spaces. Li, widely known for her ImageNet work that helped […] The post World Labs Lands $1 Billion Round Backed by Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk first appeared on CTN News-Chiang Ra…
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