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fei-fei li's startup completes $230 million in financing, aims to create a 3d world model

2024-09-14

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after successfully raising us$230 million in financing, world labs, a space intelligence startup co-founded by "ai (artificial intelligence) godmother" fei-fei li, was officially launched.

on september 13, local time, according to foreign media reports, world labs, co-founded by famous computer scientist, co-director of stanford university artificial intelligence laboratory, and stanford university professor fei-fei li, was officially launched and has successfully raised $230 million. it is reported that the goal of world labs is to develop software that can use images and other data to make decisions about the three-dimensional world, thereby building a so-called "large world model."

world labs' latest round of financing was co-led by andreessen horowitz, new enterprise associates and radical ventures, with other investors including amd ventures and nvidia's nventures. in addition, some well-known figures in the field of ai have also joined the investment, including jeff dean, chief scientist of google deepmind, and geoffrey hinton, a former google ai researcher known as one of the "godfathers of ai."

however, world labs did not disclose its valuation. in july this year, it was reported that after completing two rounds of financing, world labs' valuation had exceeded us$1 billion.

according to the official website of world labs, it is a "spatial intelligence company dedicated to building large-scale world models that can perceive, generate and interact with the 3d world" located in san francisco, usa. the company's goal is to "elevate ai models from the plane of 2d pixels to the complete 3d world, including the virtual world and the real world, to give these models rich spatial intelligence like humans."