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AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion

Aiden Reed September 28, 2026 AI Company News 0 Comments

Illustration on a warm stone background. On the left, three small blank copper picture frames, each showing only a simple horizon line, are labeled "SPARSE VIEWS". Thin copper sightlines run from them to a floating 3D scene in the center: a tiled platform with an arch, a ramp, a cylinder, a short stair and a small robot arm placing a tile. The left half of the scene is solid and the right half is a graphite wireframe. It is labeled "WORLD MODEL", "3D SCENE" and "ROBOT LEARNING", and a thin navy band around its base is labeled "JOINING". A soft navy light falls from the scene onto a pale blueprint grid labeled "ROADMAP". There, the scene's outline appears as dashed lines around three blocks labeled "HARDWARE", "SOFTWARE" and "SYSTEMS". Tags in the lower corners read "ALL STOCK" and "OPEN MODELS".

AMD agreed to buy World Labs, the world-model startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, for about $8.2 billion in stock, and Li will become AMD’s chief…