AMD to Acquire World Labs in $8.2 Billion All-Stock Deal, Bringing Fei-Fei Li Into Top AI Role

AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence AI startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion. If regulators approve the deal, Li will become AMD's executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to Lisa Su, as the chipmaker folds a frontier world-model lab into its AI hardware and software roadmap.