AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion

World Labs co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI probe laboratory co-founded by the salient researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, successful an all-stock woody worthy astir $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued astatine $1 cardinal successful a substance of months. The startup launched its archetypal commercialized product, a satellite procreation exemplary called Marble that lets users marque interactive 3D worlds from a prompt, in 2025.

The woody is expected to adjacent by the extremity of the year. Li volition go EVP and main idiosyncratic astatine AMD, reporting to AMD CEO Lisa Su, portion the World Labs squad volition "continue to absorption connected advancing AI exemplary research." AMD besides notes t …

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