AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion
Chipmaker AMD has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence startup World Labs in a transaction valued at $8.2 billion. The deal is scheduled to close by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval.
World Labs was founded in 2024 by computer vision scientist Fei-Fei Li, along with researchers Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall. The company raised $230 million in funding, a portion of which came from AMD. The startup focuses on developing new world models, which are AI systems designed to provide a useful, predictive simulation of the physical world.
The acquisition positions AMD to compete in the world models space, a field where various architectures exist. Many current approaches involve training models on vast amounts of video data, according to an interview Ars conducted earlier this year with World Labs co-founder Ben Mildenhall and other experts in the field.
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