World Labs

Spatial intelligence through generative and reconstructive world models that produce persistent, explorable 3D worlds and simulate space-time, aimed at gaming, VFX, robotics simulation and design. Atlas unifies text, image, video and 3D in one autoregressive diffusion transformer.

Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founders
Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben Mildenhall
Pushes against
Language-only models; treats 3D/spatial grounding as the missing core of intelligence.
Now
Signed a definitive agreement to join AMD (2026-09-28), with Fei-Fei Li becoming AMD chief scientist reporting to Lisa Su; no price in the announcement. Marble and the World API are live; Atlas is in early access.

Key people

  • Fei-Fei Li (to become AMD EVP and Chief Scientist)
  • Justin Johnson
  • Ben Mildenhall

Funding

  • 28 September 2026
    Amount
    Acquisition by AMD (terms undisclosed)
    Lead
    AMD (definitive agreement; close expected by end 2026)
    Source worldlabs.ai
  • 18 February 2026 reported
    Amount
    $1B
    Valuation
    ~$5B (reported by Bloomberg; not confirmed)
    Lead
    Autodesk ($200M) with AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia, Sea
    Source worldlabs.ai
  • September 2024 reported
    Amount
    $230M (reported)
    Valuation
    ~$1B (reported)
    Lead
    a16z, NEA, Radical Ventures, with NVentures, AMD Ventures, Adobe Ventures and Databricks Ventures
    Source techcrunch.com

Every funding round in the atlas

Launches

  • World Labs to join AMD 28 September 2026
    AMD agreed to acquire World Labs; Fei-Fei Li becomes AMD EVP and Chief Scientist under Lisa Su, with closing expected by end of 2026.
  • Atlas 1 September 2026
    Atlas is a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer for generating, reconstructing and simulating space. It generates 1 minute of 1440p camera-controlled video.
  • $1B funding round 18 February 2026
    World Labs announced $1B in new funding from partners including AMD, Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, NVIDIA and Sea.
  • World API 21 January 2026
    World Labs opens a public API for generating explorable 3D worlds from text, images and video, bringing Marble to developers.
  • Marble 12 November 2025
    Marble, World Labs' first public product, generates persistent 3D worlds from text, images, video or coarse layouts and exports Gaussian splats, meshes or video.
  • RTFM (Real-Time Frame Model) 16 October 2025
    RTFM generates video of an interactive 3D world in real time on a single H100, using posed frames as spatial memory.

People moves

Of the moves the atlas tracks, 0 joined and 1 left.

  • Fei-Fei Li 28 September 2026
    World Labs to AMD
    Co-founder and CEO, World Labs

Sources

  1. worldlabs.ai/blog
  2. worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement
  3. worldlabs.ai/blog/funding-2026
  4. worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas
  5. worldlabs.ai/blog/announcing-the-world-api
  6. siliconangle.com/2026/01/23/fei-fei-lis-world-labs-reportedly-raising-funding-5b-valuation
  7. techcrunch.com/2024/09/13/fei-fei-lis-world-labs-comes-out-of-stealth-with-230m-in-funding
  8. constructiondive.com/news/autodesk-invests-world-labs-artificial-intelligence/813121
  9. worldlabs.ai/about

This profile was checked and corrected against its sources on 6 October 2026. How we check