AMD is spending $8.2 billion to bring Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs into its AI business. The deal is all stock, and Li is set to join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist once it closes.
World Labs builds AI that can understand and create 3D worlds. That could help with robotics, simulation, and other systems that need to make sense of physical spaces, not just text and pictures.
For AMD, the move is about more than chips. Bringing researchers closer to the hardware could help the company design systems around the way future AI actually works. The deal is expected to close by year’s end, pending approvals.
If AI is going to move through the real world, the companies building its brains and its machines may not stay separate for long.
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