Advanced Micro Devices

A US chipmaker known for CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators, which announced the acquisition of World Labs in 2026.

AMD is a US chip company founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and others, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and currently led by chair and CEO Lisa Su. Its products include the Ryzen and EPYC processors, Radeon graphics cards, the Instinct line of AI accelerators, and the open-source ROCm software stack, positioned as a rival to NVIDIA's CUDA; in 2022 it acquired the FPGA maker Xilinx for about $50 billion, gaining embedded vision-computing platforms such as Kria. Its most direct link to embodied AI: on September 28, 2026, AMD announced an all-stock acquisition of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion, with Li becoming AMD's executive vice president and chief scientist. The deal is expected to close before the end of 2026 and is AMD's second-largest acquisition after Xilinx.

ExampleIn announcing the World Labs acquisition, AMD said the goal was to connect its hardware, software, and open models into one end-to-end AI ecosystem.

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AMD

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World Labs · NVIDIA · CUDA · Spatial Intelligence · World Model

Sources

AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute
AMD - Wikipedia

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2026-09