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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding
World Labs secured $1 billion to advance spatial AI with Autodesk’s $200 million investment, targeting media, robotics, and scientific discovery applications.
- World Labs closed a $1 billion funding round on February 18, 2026, with Autodesk Inc. investing $200 million in the startup.
- Late last year, World Labs released Marble, a multimodal world model that creates editable 3D worlds, reflecting spatial intelligence, after raising $230 million in 2024.
- Starting with media and entertainment use cases, Autodesk will serve as an adviser and said data sharing is not part of the agreement, while its neural CAD is already moving into product design tools.
- With the new funding, investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Sea steer World Labs toward robotics and scientific discovery.
- Bloomberg reported talks at about a $5 billion valuation as World Labs joins Google DeepMind and AMI Labs pursuing world models that reason about environments.
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World Labs, From a Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Fei-Fei Li, Raise Us$ 1 Billion with Investors
The startup said investors included AMD and Nvidia chip companies, Autodesk software producer, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Sea, Shope controller, among others
World Labs closes $1B investment backed by Nvidia, AMD and Autodesk
Artificial intelligence model developer World Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $1 billion in funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Autodesk Inc. and several others. The engineering software maker invested $200 million. Autodesk’s cash infusion will lay groundwork for an AI research collaboration […] The post World Labs closes $1B investment backed by Nvidia, AMD and…
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI
World Labs, the frontier artificial intelligence research and product company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in new funding. “We are focused on accelerating our mission to advance spatial intelligence by building world models that revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery and beyond,” World Labs said in a Wednesday (Feb. 18) blog post announcing the funding. The company said in the post…
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