🚨 BREAKING:
@AMD is buying
@theworldlabs for $8.2 billion! 💰
Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence company, acquired by AMD in an all-stock deal, expected to close by the end of the year subject to regulatory approval.
World Labs builds world models. Systems that take an image or a prompt and generate a coherent, navigable 3D world, with the geometry and spatial relationships holding together as you move through them.
Fei-Fei Li has spent years arguing that spatial intelligence is the missing layer between language models and machines that act in the physical world.
Now look at who bought it. AMD sells compute. NVIDIA sells compute plus Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Cosmos and GR00T, which is to say a complete software stack for simulating and training embodied systems.
That stack is a large part of why robotics teams default to NVIDIA hardware, and AMD has had no answer to it.
$8.2 billion in stock buys one.
Massive deal for robotics industry! 😮💨
🔗 Here's the company statement:
worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announ…
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