Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs

Fei-Fei Li co-founded World Labs, the spatial intelligence lab AMD agreed in September 2026 to buy for about $8.2 billion in stock, and runs it as chief executive. She created ImageNet, the image dataset behind computer vision's deep learning advances of the 2010s, and is a computer science professor at Stanford.

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Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, the spatial AI lab AMD agreed in September 2026 to buy; becomes AMD's chief scientist when the deal closes

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She told The Guardian in 2023 that she would not call herself the "godmother of AI", but accepts the name as a way to recognize women's contributions to the field.
Time named her among the 100 most influential people in AI in 2023 and among the "Architects of AI" in its 2025 Person of the Year.
She was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board in August 2023.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Based: Stanford, CA
Primary role: CEO and Co-Founder, World Labs
Born: 1976, Beijing, China
Nationality: American

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AMD's $8.2 billion World Labs buy rests on a 19-model win World Labs' CEO claims, with no paper

The first-place result was posted by World Labs' own CEO, with no paper, model card or code behind it, and AMD's 10-Q of November 4 still lists the $8.2 billion stock purchase as pending. The rival keynote at this week's robot-learning conference brings robots that have worked a Toyota plant since February.

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AMD bought Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock as data center sales jumped 97%

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AMD pays $8.2 billion for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs as robot training data orders jump as much as a hundredfold

Luma's Hollywood pitch rests on a borrowed voice and a model layer it reportedly rents

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