World Labs Secures $1 Billion Funding to Advance AI Innovations

World Labs, an AI startup led by Li Feifei, has successfully raised $1 billion in funding. According to ChainCatcher, the investment round saw participation from AMD, Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, NVIDIA, and Sea. World Labs is focused on accelerating the development of spatial intelligence. The company aims to revolutionize storytelling, inspire creativity, advance robotics, and promote scientific discovery by building world models. The company announced that its first product, Marble, enables users to create spatially coherent, high-fidelity, and persistent 3D worlds from images, videos, or text.