Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Secures $1 Billion for Spatial Intelligence AI
The startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li raises massive funding from AMD, NVIDIA, and Fidelity to advance 3D world generation.
World Labs, the AI startup founded by renowned computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, has secured $1 billion in funding from major investors including AMD, NVIDIA, and Fidelity.
What World Labs Does
The company is focused on advancing spatial intelligence—AI that understands and generates 3D environments. Their flagship product MARBLE creates cohesive 3D worlds from:
- Still images
- Video footage
- Text descriptions
Why It Matters
Spatial AI has applications across:
- Gaming and entertainment: Procedural world generation
- Architecture and design: Rapid 3D prototyping
- Robotics: Understanding physical environments
- Virtual/augmented reality: Immersive content creation
Fei-Fei Li’s Vision
Li, who led Stanford’s AI Lab and created ImageNet (the dataset that sparked the deep learning revolution), has described spatial intelligence as “the next frontier” in AI—moving beyond 2D image understanding to full 3D comprehension.
The Bigger Picture
This funding round reflects continued investor enthusiasm for AI infrastructure and capabilities, even as the market matures beyond the initial hype phase toward practical applications.