AMD announced on September 28 that it has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.
World Labs develops spatial-intelligence models that build and simulate interactive 3D environments from text, images and video. Its work also includes robotic learning and simulation.
Research meets compute
After closing, co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li will become AMD’s executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to Lisa Su. The World Labs team will continue its model research.
AMD says that expertise will help inform future hardware, software and system designs as AI workloads expand into robotics and simulation. Those benefits remain the company’s stated rationale for a transaction that has yet to complete.
Sources: AMD acquisition announcement.
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