AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion
The acquisition adds World Labs’ spatial-intelligence team and models as AMD seeks deeper insight into evolving AI workloads.
- Today, Advanced Micro Devices announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, an AI research startup led by Fei-Fei, in a transaction valued at $8.2 billion.
- San Francisco-based World Labs develops Spatial intelligence models that reason how the 3D world works, following a $1 billion funding round earlier this year.
- Fei-Fei will join Advanced Micro Devices as executive vice president and chief scientist, strengthening the company's ability to develop AI-optimized CPUs and GPUs for emerging models.
- The acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2026, giving Advanced Micro Devices deeper insight into evolving AI workloads to shape future technology roadmaps.
- "Building the compute platforms for the next generation of AI requires a deep understanding of how models are evolving," said Lisa, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices.
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Advanced Micro Devices Is Spending $8.2 Billion to Learn What AI Needs Next
AMD plans an $8.2 billion all-stock deal to acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI startup World Labs, aiming to inform its chip roadmap, though shareholder dilution and customer reaction remain uncertain.
Nvidia Bought Hugging Face, AMD Bought World Labs. Neither Knows Which Layer of AI Will Win
AMD agreed on 28 September to buy World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, for about $8.2 billion in AMD stock. Taken on its own, it reads as a chipmaker buying talent and a head start in physical AI, and that is how most of the coverage has framed it. Taken alongside what Nvidia did at the start of the same month, when it agreed to buy the open-model platform Hugging Face for roughly $12.9 billion, it looks like so…
In its competition with industry giant Nvidia, the US chip company AMD spends more than eight billion dollars (7.03 billion euros) on the start-up of an AI pioneer.
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