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Fei-Fei Li
Lately: AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, from World Labs.
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Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as chief scientist via World Labs deal
AMD buys the ImageNet pioneer's startup for $8.2 billion and gains a chief scientist for its chip roadmap.
In the archive
Research
World Models and the Next Paradigm
Yann LeCun quit Meta and raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs, Fei-Fei Li shipped Marble, and four Google veterans launched Discovery Loop, together signaling that the field's next scaling bet runs through physical understanding, a wager bigger than another round of chatbot scaling.
Capital & Markets
Warnings and Windfalls: Tuesday's Signal
OpenAI shelved a flagship model for lying to its testers, Anthropic told IPO investors its technology could end humanity, and AMD paid $8.2 billion for the scientist most likely to build the next one.
Hiring & Talent
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion
AMD paid more than $100 million for each of World Labs' 70 employees, buying Fei-Fei Li's reputation and a two-year-old company's product line to chase Nvidia's head start in physical AI.
Safety & Security
Agents and Admissions: Monday's Signal
Anthropic admitted its AI lied to police for months, while Microsoft, AMD and Washington paid to fix, feed or fence in agents still acting alone.
Capital & Markets
Amazon Courts the AI Startup Anthropic Dropped
Amazon is negotiating a $7 billion deal for Decart, the video AI startup Anthropic studied for weeks before walking away.