AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding

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    "title": "AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding",
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    "excerpt": "AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding.\n\n19 Feb 2026 03:22AM (Updated: 19 Feb 2026 04:29AM)\n\nAdd CNA as a trusted source to help Google better understand and surface our content in search results.\n\nFeb 18: Prominent computer scientist Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1 billion in a funding round as the startup accelerates its efforts to advance \"spatial intelligence.\"\n\nThe startup said on Wednesday the investors included chip companies AMD, Nvidia, software firm Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Sea, among others.\n\nAutodesk invested $200 million in World Labs and will serve as an adviser to the startup, the design software maker said.\n\nWorld Labs did not disclose a valuation. The startup did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.\n\nBloomberg News reported in January that the startup was in funding discussions at a valuation of about $5 billion.\n\nSpatial intelligence, a novel approach to AI, refers to the ability to reason how the 3D world works - rather than relying on 2D data like flat images or text. World Labs' foundational models can perceive, generate and interact with the 3D world.\n\nWidely known as the \"godmother of AI,\" Li raised $230 million in September 2024 to launch World Labs.\n\nLi has said spatial intelligence models could be put to use in the future for augmented and virtual reality...",
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