AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
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AMD is acquiring World Labs, the AI research startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. World Labs, founded in 2024, built Marble, a commercial model for generating interactive 3D worlds from prompts, and Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist.
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The deal signals AMD’s push to pair its AI hardware ambitions with deeper model research and application-layer capabilities. By targeting world generation and spatial AI, AMD may be trying to differentiate beyond accelerators and strengthen its position against Nvidia’s broader AI ecosystem.
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