Fei-Fei Li

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World Labs debuts Atlas, a model that builds and simulates 3D worlds from a few photos

Leading World Labs as Atlas enters early access

Point a phone camera at a room and this model rebuilds the room in 3D, including the parts the camera never saw. On September 1, World Labs, the startup co-founded by Stanford computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, unveiled Atlas.

Updated Sep 2

Stanford report finds China has closed the artificial intelligence gap with the United States

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford

For most of the past decade, the United States led in artificial intelligence — Stanford University's ninth annual AI Index, released April 13, says that lead is effectively gone. Chinese models have traded places with American ones at the top of performance rankings multiple times since early 2025, and the current gap is 2.7 percentage points, down from double digits.

Updated May 31