Michael Spencer Substack

Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor many deem the “Godmother of AI,” has raised $230 million for her new startup, World Labs, from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Radical Ventures.

Another way to consider what they are trying to do is the following:  World Labs is seeking to create AI models that can accurately estimate the three-dimensional physicality of real-world objects and environments, enabling detailed digital replicas without the need for extensive data collection. G

They are calling themselves a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world.