World Labs announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to join AMD, according to the company’s blog post. The announcement notes that World Labs was founded in 2024 and has pursued research and technical breakthroughs aimed at applying AI to problems in the spatial and physical world. To accelerate this vision, the company says it needs to scale its efforts, expand its reach, and move closer to the underlying hardware that powers AI systems. The blog post explains that a deep technical partnership with AMD began last year, initially focusing on model training and inference optimization on AMD GPUs. As the teams collaborated, they realized that combining World Labs’ AI ecosystem of software, hardware, foundation models, and applications with AMD’s capabilities would be a natural fit. According to the announcement, this synergy motivated the decision to pursue a full integration. Leadership details are also outlined: Dr. Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as an Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Dr. Lisa Su. Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall will continue to work alongside Fei-Fei Li to lead the World Labs team after it becomes part of AMD. Together they will shape what the announcement describes as a “world leading frontier research organization.” The combined organization aims to build an end‑to‑end open AI ecosystem that spans hardware, software, platforms, and widely accessible open models. The announcement adds that Fei‑Fei Li shares more details of the journey so far and the shared vision for the future in a linked post. Finally, the transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
