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The article is reprinted from Quantum Bit (public account QbitAI)
Author: Fish and Sheep

"AI Godmother" Fei-Fei Li now has a new title:

Founder of the new "spatial intelligence" unicorn.

According to the Financial Times, in less than four months, Fei-Fei Li’s first ventureWorld Labs, and has now exceeded a valuation of US$1 billion.

People familiar with the matter revealed that in the latest round of financing, World Labs raised approximately US$100 million (approximately RMB 725 million).

At present, the company has completed two rounds of financing, with investors including Silicon Valley venture capital a16z and Radical Ventures.

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Spatial intelligence allows AI to understand the real world

It is reported that World Labs was founded in April this year. Fei-Fei Li is very low-key about this venture, and her latest status on her LinkedIn homepage is still "newbie".

But in a series of recent activities, she still revealed in detail what is“Spatial Intelligence”:

Visualization becomes insight; seeing becomes understanding; understanding leads to action.

Simply put, Fei-Fei Li believes thatSpatial intelligence is "a key piece of the puzzle in solving the artificial intelligence challenge."

In a 15-minute TED talk released in May, Fei-Fei Li shared more of her thoughts on spatial intelligence. The key points include:

• The ability to see is thought to have sparked the Cambrian explosion, a period of time when animal species entered the fossil record in large numbers. What started out as a passive experience, simply positioning to let in light, soon became more active, and nervous systems began to evolve…and these changes gave rise to intelligence.

• For years I have been saying that taking pictures and understanding are not the same thing. Today I want to add one more point: it is not enough to just look. Look in order to act and learn.

• If we want AI to go beyond current capabilities, we don’t just want AI that can see and talk, we want AI that can act. The latest milestone in spatial intelligence is teaching computers to see, learn, act, and learn to see and act better.

• A new era is unfolding before our eyes in this virtuous cycle as advances in spatial intelligence accelerate. This cycle is catalyzing robotic learning, a key component of any embodied intelligent system that needs to understand and interact with the 3D world.

Fei-Fei Li also shared her laboratory's latest progress in the field of space intelligence.

For example, developing simulated environments driven by 3D spatial models so that computers can learn how to move freely in them.

Another example is VoxPoser, which sparked a wave of discussion on embodied intelligence: humans can give instructions to robots in natural language at will, and the large language model + visual language model can automatically help the robot make plans to complete the task.

The Financial Times quoted a venture capitalist who described the latest developments of Li Feifei's startup more concretely:

World Labs is developing a model that can understand the three-dimensional physical world, essentially understanding and simulating the physical properties, spatial location and function of objects.

It is worth noting that in her latest article co-authored with Stanford logician and philosopher John Etchemendy, Fei-Fei Li also mentioned that large models do not have a physical body and therefore cannot produce subjective experience of the results caused by physiological states.

We have not yet achieved sentient AI, and larger language models will not help us get there. If we want to achieve sentience in AI systems, we need to better understand how sentience arises in biological systems.

It seems that Fei-Fei Li's space intelligence entrepreneurship also hides greater scientific research and business ambitions.

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"AI Godmother" Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li is one of the most influential women and Chinese in the field of AI.

Her legendary experience has always been talked about with relish——

He became a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford at the age of 33, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering at the age of 44. He is currently the dean of the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).

She also promoted ImageNet, a benchmark achievement in the field of computer vision.

He has many talented disciples, such as Andrej Karpathy, who has worked at OpenAI and Tesla, and Jim Fan, who is currently at NVIDIA, who are also influential figures in the field of AI.

Previously, Fei-Fei Li also briefly entered the industry and served as Google's vice president and chief scientist of Google Cloud AI. She single-handedly promoted the formal establishment of Google AI China Center, which is Google's first AI research center in Asia. She also led Google Cloud to launch a series of influential products, including AutoML, Contact Center AI, Dialogflow Enterprise, etc.

In the big model trend, Fei-Fei Li's movements in the field of embodied intelligence have become one of the most watched indicators from the very beginning.

Capital favors this, and it is a natural outcome. And the new story of scientist Fei-Fei Li is destined to continue to attract the attention of the global technology circle.

Reference Links:
https://www.ft.com/content/0b210299-4659-4055-8d81-5a493e85432f