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AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion
AMD has acquired San Francisco-based World Labs, which raised $1 billion in funding earlier in 2026 for spatial-intelligence models, in an $8.2 billion deal. Builders in 3D vision, robotics, or metaverse infrastructure should expect accelerated chip-software integration—incumbents are now bundling compute with domain models.
Source: ET Tech ↗
🎧 Arjun & Meera on this story — from 0:23 in the 29 September 2026 episode