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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Atlas lets you build out large 3D environments starting from a single input image. You can then define a camera path through the world and generate a video along it. Here’s how the 3D structure, camera path and final flythrough connect.… |
AMD just paid $8.2 billion to hire the godmother of AI 💸 @AMD is acquiring @theworldlabs, Fei-Fei Li’s spatial intelligence startup, in an all-stock deal. Li becomes AMD’s Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su. Two of the… |
There are more companies selling robot intelligence right now than companies selling robots. That showed up this year as a pattern I kept noticing. In this case all these research groups with published on the same robot from @DexmateAI.… |
Atlas beta access has started rolling out! Here’s a look at how you can control camera paths with pixel-perfect precision. https://t.co/lvmSp8aU4R |
Decart is reportedly closing in on a $7 billion sale to Amazon, after Anthropic offered $6 billion in August and SpaceX reportedly looked too. I keep coming back to what's actually being bought here. Decart doesn't make a chatbot. It makes… |
NEWS AMD is paying $8.2 billion for World Labs and the hardware angle is hard to ignore. World Labs builds spatial intelligence models that generate reconstruct and simulate interactive 3D environments from text images and video. Its… |
Robotico Live is back with the latest from across robotics. This week, AMD’s $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs, Direct Drive Tech’s IPO, Amazon’s robotics expansion and more. @RachelCreates and @jess_xmaq break it all down. 00:24… |
World Labs co-founders Dr. Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson on compute as the constraint, and the Slack message that convinced them to go all-in on their Atlas model: Fei-Fei: "I think [we] have total conviction about the scaling law." "I do… |
We spoke with the founders of Feather, O-ID and Delta about what they’re building next. This week’s newsletter: their answers, Tesla’s Optimus progress and AMD’s World Labs deal. Get the weekly briefing in your inbox. Subscribe free →… |
This is big… AMD is buying World Labs for $8.2B and bringing Dr. Fei-Fei Li on board. In her open letter, Li says she’ll become EVP and chief scientist once the deal closes, working directly with Lisa Su. This looks like a win-win: World… |
$8.2 billion. That's what AMD is paying for a company that turns two years old this year and has shipped exactly one product. World Labs was Fei-Fei Li's bet that language models were solving the wrong problem, that understanding physical… |
Massive week in robotics. I went through everything from World Labs, Skild AI, RealSense and even more. Get your coffee and see what happened in robotics space: |
Who deserves the valuation: Figure at $39B or World Labs at $8.2B? AMD is buying World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup, for $8.2B in all stock. Some context on how wild this is: - World Labs is barely 2 years old (founded… |
World Labs' Dr. Fei-Fei Li on why the 3D world and spatial intelligence are fundamentally different from language models: "Language is fundamentally a purely generated signal. There's no language out there. You don't go out in the nature… |
AMD just made one of its biggest moves yet to challenge Nvidia. AMD acquired World Labs for roughly $8.2 billion, giving it access to Fei Fei Li’s team, technology, and research in world models. World Labs is building AI that can… |
🚨 BREAKING: @AMD is buying @theworldlabs for $8.2 billion! 💰 Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence company, acquired by AMD in an all-stock deal, expected to close by the end of the year subject to regulatory approval. World Labs builds… |
ACQUIRED: AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the 3D-world AI startup led by "godmother of AI" Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2B in stock. Li will become AMD's chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. https://t.co/svhEDxesGZ |
I don’t normally write these things. But this one hits a bit different. Nearly three years ago I told a16z I wanted to spend part time outside the firm helping @drfeifei start and build a frontier model company. And what followed were some… |
We are excited to announce that World Labs is joining @AMD. The research and technical breakthroughs we have achieved since our founding in 2024 have given us a clear vision for AI’s potential to solve problems in the spatial and physical… |
Block out a world. Let Atlas bring it to life. A sneak peek at Chisel, now in Atlas beta. https://t.co/ueaTdbItna |
World Labs' new Atlas model turns a single photograph into a 3D world you can navigate. It can also turn ordinary phone footage into simulated spaces for training robots: https://t.co/VAprgmEhS6 |
World Labs’ Atlas is opening new possibilities for scalable robotics simulation. Behind the scenes, NVIDIA Isaac and CUDA-enabled PyTorch helped train some locomotion policies, while NVIDIA GPUs rendered the manipulation demo at… |
Incredible opportunity for robotic learning researchers/engineers to join @theworldlabs! ❤️🔥 https://t.co/q7JA8hSC9F |
Massive week in robotics. I went through everything from World Labs, Skild AI, Maven Robotics and even more. Get your coffee and see what happened in robotics space: |
Atlas runs on real-time!!🚀 https://t.co/nKs3CUJhl9 |
One more thing… https://t.co/ZWZSnaCUsJ |
World Labs co-founders Justin Johnson and Dr. Fei-Fei Li say Atlas unifies the two things computer vision has always kept apart: Justin: "Historically, reconstruction has been its own subfield in computer vision with its own specialized… |
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. https://t.co/PWLiEhkxuo |
World Labs co-founders Justin Johnson and Dr. Fei-Fei Li say LLMs use next-token prediction, but spatial intelligence has its own equivalent: Justin: "The soft definition of AI-completeness is there's this fundamental primitive that's an… |
I don’t think most people realize what World Labs just built. Atlas can take a handful of ordinary real-world photos or videos and turn them into a navigable 3D environment. You can move the camera through the scene, change the viewpoint,… |
>blogs about ray tracing for a CS project in 2012 >co-founds World Labs in 2024 >ships Atlas in 2026, a spatial intelligence model that turns a few photos into a whole 3D world curiosity compounds https://t.co/bq771VzcKx… |
>be dr. fei-fei li >born in beijing, raised in chengdu >dad moves to new jersey, follow at age 16 >speak almost no english >parents open a dry cleaner >work the counter on weekends >get into princeton on a full scholarship >study physics,… |
World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson says Atlas can recreate the famous "Bullet Time" shot from The Matrix with iPhones: "The way they did that shot is they had a ring of hundreds of cameras. [Neo] fell over in the studio, they had… |
Next view prediction is the key to Atlas, enabling us to unify pixel-level generation and reconstruction. @jcjohnss @BenMildenhall @martin_casado and I had a deeper discussion on some of the most exciting technical innovations of Atlas,… |
Old footage sitting in your camera roll could now be reconstructable as a 3D scene. World Labs co-founders Ben Mildenhall and Fei-Fei Li on how Atlas got there: Ben: "In a casual sense... I took three photos of this object, or six photos… |
World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and a16z's Martin Casado on Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence: LLMs are built on next token prediction. Video models are built on next frame prediction. Atlas… |
World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson on how five photos from your phone could teach a robot to work in a room it has never seen: "I think there's a couple different tech trees that people are working on. One is this notion of fully… |
Something shifted with the World Labs Atlas announcement. We've had image generators, video generators, and 3D tools for years. Atlas does all three from a single model with the same spatial understanding. The technical description: a… |
Aug 12, 2026How Promise used Marble to transform archival imagery into immersive 3D environments for Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble Using Hybrid Production to Reconstruct Crime Scenes… |
Nov 12, 2025A behind-the-scenes look at how Marble powered the creation of its own launch story. Bringing Marble to Life World Labs: Just Imagine - YouTube Tap to unmute World Labs: Just Imagine World Labs World Labs5.53K subscribers… |
September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear,… |
Post Log in Sign up Post World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch. This foundation blends the best of modern LLMs and video models,… |
September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear,… |
🤖 x 🌍 = 📈 come and join us for this exciting journey!! |
Post Log in Sign up Post World Labs on X: "The next generation of robotics needs models that can understand, simulate, learn from, and act across virtual and physical worlds. We’re hiring a Sr Business Development Lead, Robotics & Physical… |
Nov 12, 2025A behind-the-scenes look at how Marble powered the creation of its own launch story. Bringing Marble to Life World Labs: Just Imagine - YouTube Tap to unmute World Labs: Just Imagine World Labs World Labs5.53K subscribers… |
Aug 12, 2026How Promise used Marble to transform archival imagery into immersive 3D environments for Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble Using Hybrid Production to Reconstruct Crime Scenes… |
Post Log in Sign up Post World Labs on X: "Viewing these worlds at full scale on an LED stage is mesmerizing. From 16K LED volumes to real-time production workflows, here are a few ways Marble is being used in virtual production and VFX ↓"… |