AMD buys ‘Godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li’s firm for US$8.2b

AMD has acquired World Labs, an AI company founded by Fei-Fei Li, for approximately US$8.2 billion, making her the chief scientist at AMD.

World Labs focuses on "spatial intelligence," which involves simulating 3D environments and has applications in robotics and virtual simulations.

AMD's valuation recently reached US$1 trillion, spurred by investment in artificial intelligence, although it still trails behind rival chip maker Nvidia.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 29 — Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday it has acquired World Labs, an artificial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, one of the field’s most prominent researchers, sometimes referred to as “The Godmother of AI.”

The deal is valued at approximately US$8.2 billion (RM33.5 billion) and will make Li, a Stanford computer science professor, chief scientist at AMD.

Li founded World Labs to develop what she calls “spatial intelligence” — technology that can simulate 3D environments from images, video and text.

The company researches so-called world models, which work differently than the popular AI systems that generate text and images.

Instead of creating new content, world models learn how the physical world actually works so they can simulate and predict what happens.

The research has applications in robotics and virtual simulations.

“Now that we have tangible proof of the possibilities, we want to do everything we can to accelerate the future,” Li said in a blog post.

“To do this requires scaling our efforts, widening our reach, and getting closer to the hardware.”

AMD this month became the latest equity to reach a US$1 trillion valuation due to the massive investment boom over artificial intelligence.

Even with the latest surge, AMD’s valuation significantly trails rival chip company Nvidia, considered the pace-setter in artificial intelligence. — AFP

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AMD 以约 82 亿美元的价格收购了由李飞飞创立的人工智能公司 World Labs，李飞飞也因此成为 AMD 的首席科学家。

世界实验室专注于“空间智能”，即模拟 3D 环境，并在机器人和虚拟仿真领域得到应用。

受人工智能领域投资的推动，AMD 的估值最近达到了 1 万亿美元，尽管它仍然落后于竞争对手芯片制造商英伟达。

旧金山，9 月 29 日——芯片制造商 Advanced Micro Devices 周一宣布，已收购 World Labs，这是一家由人工智能领域最杰出的研究人员之一李飞飞创立的人工智能公司，李飞飞有时被称为“人工智能教母”。

该交易价值约 82 亿美元（335 亿令吉），将使斯坦福大学计算机科学教授李健熙成为 AMD 的首席科学家。

李创立了 World Labs，旨在开发她所谓的“空间智能”——一种能够根据图像、视频和文本模拟 3D 环境的技术。

该公司研究所谓的世界模型，其工作原理与生成文本和图像的流行人工智能系统不同。

世界模型不是创造新的内容，而是学习物理世界的实际运作方式，以便模拟和预测将会发生什么。

这项研究在机器人技术和虚拟仿真领域具有应用价值。

李在一篇博客文章中写道：“既然我们已经有了切实的证据证明这些可能性，我们就想尽一切努力加速未来的发展。”

“要做到这一点，我们需要扩大我们的工作规模，拓宽我们的覆盖范围，并更接近硬件。”

由于人工智能领域的大规模投资热潮，AMD 本月成为最新一家市值达到 1 万亿美元的公司。

即便经历了最近的股价飙升，AMD的市值仍然远落后于竞争对手芯片公司英伟达，后者被认为是人工智能领域的领军企业。——法新社

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