AMD reportedly agrees to acquire World Labs for about $8.2B
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AMD reportedly agreed to acquire spatial-AI company World Labs for about $8.2 billion. Completion requires regulatory approval, after which Fei-Fei Li is expected to become AMD’s executive vice president and chief scientist.
An all-stock deal subject to regulatory approval
The Register reports that AMD reached an agreement to acquire World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion in stock. The report says the deal is expected to close by year-end if regulators approve it. World Labs, founded in early 2024, develops spatial-intelligence “world models” that generate, reconstruct, and simulate 3D environments from text, image, and video inputs. The report says World Labs will continue its advanced-model work and that Li will report directly to AMD CEO Lisa Su.
The available report does not provide a comparable earlier ownership or organizational baseline for World Labs.
The Register reports that AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs in an approximately $8.2 billion all-stock deal, subject to regulatory approval.
If completed as reported, the deal would add a spatial-AI research group to AMD and connect its model work with AMD’s future AI hardware, software, and systems development.
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- The RegisterAMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AIRead source →