AMD Acquires World Labs

AMD announced on September 28 that it will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock — according to CNBC, this is the company's second-largest acquisition in history after Xilinx, and Li will lead science at AMD as Chief Scientist.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-09-30Updated 2026-09-30

2026-09-30 Business OpenAI

💼 AMD Acquires World Labs

AMD is acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock — the second-largest deal in AMD's history after Xilinx. World Labs builds spatial intelligence models: interactive 3D scenes from text, images, and video. Li will become AMD's Chief Scientist.

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Source: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute

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