AMD Bought World Labs for $8.2 Billion. Pimax Founder Robin Weng Says the Real Story Is Compute

AMD said on Sept. 28 that it would acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. The transaction, expected to close by the end of 2026, would make Li an executive vice president and chief scientist at AMD, reporting directly to Chair and CEO Lisa Su.

The deal would be AMD’s second-largest acquisition, behind its roughly $50 billion purchase of Xilinx in 2022.

The relationship between the two companies predates the acquisition. AMD was an early investor in World Labs, and the companies began working together last year on model training and inference optimization. When World Labs raised $1 billion in February, both AMD and Nvidia were among its investors.

The announcement quickly drew attention across the AI and investment communities. It also renewed interest in a less obvious beneficiary of advances in world models: XR.

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