Fei-Fei Li

Money Moves

Will report to AMD CEO Lisa Su after the deal closes

AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI lab founded by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in stock. The deal puts one of AI's most prominent researchers inside a chipmaker racing to close Nvidia's lead in data-center AI. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026, pending regulatory approvals.

Updated Oct 17

New Capabilities

As of September 2026: 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

New Capabilities

As of May 2026: 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