World Labs

Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup, which builds 3D world generation; AMD announced its acquisition in September 2026.

World Labs was founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li together with Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and others, headquartered in San Francisco and focused on spatial intelligence — getting models to understand and generate three-dimensional worlds. When it came out of stealth in September 2024, it had raised $230 million in total funding at a $1 billion valuation. In November 2025 it launched Marble, which turns text, images, or video into a 3D scene a user can freely walk through and view, exportable as a Gaussian splat or a mesh; it raised a further $1 billion round in February 2026 and released its underlying Atlas model in September 2026. On September 28, 2026, AMD announced an all-stock acquisition of World Labs for about $8.2 billion, with Li becoming AMD's chief scientist; the deal is expected to close before the end of the year. The 3D scenes it generates can also serve as robot simulation environments.

ExampleMarble can turn a single photo of a kitchen into a 3D scene, which can be exported as a mesh and dropped into a simulator as a robot training environment.

Also called

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs

Related

Spatial Intelligence · World Model · Marble (World Labs) · Advanced Micro Devices · Gaussian Splatting-based Simulation

Sources

AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute
World Labs: joining AMD
World Labs: Marble

As of

2026-09