AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2B in all-stock deal; Fei-Fei Li joins as EVP and Chief Scientist

AMD 以 82 亿美元全股票收购 World Labs，李飞飞出任执行副总裁兼首席科学家

AMD is buying World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion. World Labs builds 'world models' that generate interactive 3D environments from text, images, or video, targeting robotics training, factory simulation, and research. Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as EVP and Chief Scientist, reporting to Lisa Su. Li is best known for creating ImageNet and previously served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud and co-director of Stanford's HAI. World Labs just launched Atlas, a model that predicts novel camera views from a few 2D images. Su framed the deal as a way to understand where cutting-edge AI models are heading, so AMD can build the chips and systems those models will run on.

Why it matters: $8.2B all-stock acquisition, Fei-Fei Li joins as EVP and Chief Scientist reporting to Lisa Su — AMD's biggest AI buy in years and Li's first chip-company executive role. World Labs' world-model tech points at robot training and industrial simulation, a clear fit with AMD's har...