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World Labs

AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus

San Francisco (Fei-Fei Li)

Up and coming Creative and mediaupdated 27 Oct 2026

Being acquired by AMD for about $8.2B in stock (announced 28 Sep; closing by year-end). Fei-Fei Li becomes AMD's chief scientist.

Missed in the October update; added 27 Oct. The team keeps doing model research after closing.

What it offers

Main offerings
Atlas
World model from text, images and video (early access).
Marble
3D world generation.

Recent news

  • AMD agrees to buy World Labs for about $8.2BA chipmaker buying a world-model lab to steer its hardware roadmap.Data Center Knowledge ↗
  • World Labs introduces Atlas omni world modelFirst major world-model product launch in the window; the company is backed by $1B+ raised in February 2026.World Labs ↗
  • Atlas generates, reconstructs, simulates 3D worlds from photosPress notes strong rater preference claims, but with asymmetric tests and no independent replication.The Decoder ↗

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