# World Labs > Markdown twin of https://roboterminal.app/companies/world-labs · https://roboterminal.app/companies/world-labs.md ## Key numbers - **Claimed raise:** $100million - _"She raised roughly $100 million in 2024 at a valuation north of $1 billion"_ - Source: @stretchcloud on X - **Claimed raise:** $1B - _"It just raised $1B earlier this year."_ - Source: @TheHumanoidHub on X ## On shared sources - [AMD](https://roboterminal.app/companies/amd) (12) - [a16z](https://roboterminal.app/companies/a16z) (9) - [NVIDIA](https://roboterminal.app/companies/nvidia) (8) - [Amazon](https://roboterminal.app/companies/amazon) (3) - [Figure](https://roboterminal.app/companies/figure) (2) - [Google DeepMind](https://roboterminal.app/companies/google) (2) - [Pixomondo](https://roboterminal.app/companies/pixomondo) (2) - [Promise](https://roboterminal.app/companies/promise) (2) - [Skild](https://roboterminal.app/companies/skild) (2) - [Agility](https://roboterminal.app/companies/agility) (1) - [AMI Labs](https://roboterminal.app/companies/ami-labs) (1) - [Anthropic](https://roboterminal.app/companies/anthropic) (1) - [Atlas](https://roboterminal.app/companies/atlas) (1) - [Decart](https://roboterminal.app/companies/decart) (1) - [Dexmate](https://roboterminal.app/companies/dexmate) (1) - [Direct Drive Tech](https://roboterminal.app/companies/direct-drive-tech) (1) - [Hugging Face](https://roboterminal.app/companies/hugging-face) (1) - [LeRobot](https://roboterminal.app/companies/lerobot) (1) - [Maven Robotics](https://roboterminal.app/companies/maven) (1) - [O-ID](https://roboterminal.app/companies/o-id) (1) - [RealSense](https://roboterminal.app/companies/realsense) (1) - [Sharpa](https://roboterminal.app/companies/sharpa) (1) - [SpaceX](https://roboterminal.app/companies/spacex) (1) - [Stanford](https://roboterminal.app/companies/stanford) (1) - [Tesla](https://roboterminal.app/companies/tesla) (1) - [XMAQUINA](https://roboterminal.app/companies/xmaquina) (1) ## Pulse - [@theworldlabs on X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2113322872903209414) 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, camer… - [@lukas_m_ziegler on X](https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2111421248836136960) 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 … - [@lukas_m_ziegler on X](https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2111102543245746428) 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 publishe… - [@theworldlabs on X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2110782427803341251) 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 - [@stretchcloud on X](https://x.com/stretchcloud/status/2109418778412896455) 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. … - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2107142064349524144) 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 environment… - [@xmaquina on X](https://x.com/xmaquina/status/2105692081041891647) 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 @… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2105016126300405858) 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 co… - [@humanoidsdaily on X](https://x.com/humanoidsdaily/status/2104961526314447357) 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 briefi… - [@XRoboHub on X](https://x.com/XRoboHub/status/2104937937502970208) 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… - [@stretchcloud on X](https://x.com/stretchcloud/status/2104904775984902445) $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 wron… - [@lukas_m_ziegler on X](https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2104851806522429802) 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: - [@TheHumanoidHub on X](https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2104793378785571114) 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: - Worl… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2104710753421005054) 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 … - [@MilkRoadAI on X](https://x.com/MilkRoadAI/status/2104678443619369221) 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… - [@lukas_m_ziegler on X](https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2104675318682255849) 🚨 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 regu… - [@TheRundownAI on X](https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2104672175118803416) 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.c… - [@martin_casado on X](https://x.com/martin_casado/status/2104666454054580602) 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 mod… - [@theworldlabs on X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2104665621120311465) 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 solv… - [@theworldlabs on X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2102813236068504044) Block out a world. Let Atlas bring it to life. A sneak peek at Chisel, now in Atlas beta. https://t.co/ueaTdbItna - [@TheRundownAI on X](https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2100683805178667217) 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 - [@NVIDIARobotics on X](https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2100642658154950940) 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 rende… - [@drfeifei on X](https://x.com/drfeifei/status/2099961140453482687) Incredible opportunity for robotic learning researchers/engineers to join @theworldlabs! ❤️‍🔥 https://t.co/q7JA8hSC9F - [@lukas_m_ziegler on X](https://x.com/lukas_m_ziegler/status/2099584670836908496) 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: - [@drfeifei on X](https://x.com/drfeifei/status/2097389221548118144) Atlas runs on real-time!!🚀 https://t.co/nKs3CUJhl9 - [@theworldlabs on X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2097386575885984106) One more thing… https://t.co/ZWZSnaCUsJ - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2096644736874639388) 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 comp… - [@pstAsiatech on X](https://x.com/pstAsiatech/status/2096407172867305642) Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. https://t.co/PWLiEhkxuo - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2096283613352579197) 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… - [@smsehy on X](https://x.com/smsehy/status/2096139223204020693) 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 th… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2095972688200372368) >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 htt… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2095961376208646248) >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… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2095940012932215128) 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] fe… - [@drfeifei on X](https://x.com/drfeifei/status/2095926761305575826) 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 exci… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2095921217308086425) 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… - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2095882301032828932) 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 … - [@a16z on X](https://x.com/a16z/status/2095267502930764175) 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 … - [@stretchcloud on X](https://x.com/stretchcloud/status/2095225248774029545) 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 understan… - [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, benefiting from the architectural, algorithmic, and systems advances from both areas." / X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839768115036581) 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 be… - [Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2094839769616589051) 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… - [@drfeifei: 🤖 x 🌍 = 📈 come and join us for this exciting journey!!](https://x.com/drfeifei/status/2092662138045407532) 🤖 x 🌍 = 📈 come and join us for this exciting journey!! - [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 AI to help bring this technology into real-world applications 🤖🚀" / X](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2092659658980983279) 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 Busines… - [Bringing Marble to Life | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2090479436550602863) 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… - [From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs](https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/2090479434927411551) 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 … - [From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs](https://www.worldlabs.ai/case-studies/from-archive-to-production) 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 … - [Bringing Marble to Life | World Labs](https://www.worldlabs.ai/case-studies/bringing-marble-to-life) 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… - [World Labs Atlas](https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas) 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… --- Source: Roboterminal · https://roboterminal.app/companies/world-labs.md