World Labs news
The gist
AMD agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in an all-stock deal.
The purchase adds world-model talent as AMD pushes to compete with Nvidia.
How it unfolded
- 2024Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs to develop deep learning models with a more robust understanding of reality.
- Sep 1, 2026World Labs introduced Atlas, described as an omni world model pretrained from scratch as a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer operating natively on text, images, video and 3D.
- Sep 28, 2026AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs for about $8.2 billion in an all-stock transaction; World Labs announced it signed the agreement to join AMD.