World Labs

Fei-Fei Li's company is working on spatial and world intelligence: AI that understands and generates 3D environments rather than just language and images. Its Marble model turns a prompt or a photo into an explorable, persistent 3D world, a building block for games, film, robotics simulation and embodied AI.

• Marble opened to the public, generating persistent 3D worlds from text and images.
• Exports to game engines and robotics simulators expanded.
• Continued hiring from Stanford, Google and Nvidia research.

Language models learned from text; the next leap may come from models that learn how the physical world is arranged. World Labs is the purest bet on that thesis.

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