# AMD to acquire ‘godmother of AI’ Li Fei-Fei’s start-up for $8.2 billion

https://mins.news/en/item/78054

- South China Morning Post, 2026-09-29 04:30 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3369141/amd-acquires-godmother-ai-li-fei-feis-start-battle-nvidia-intensifies?utm_source=rss_feed

> US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI start-up founded by Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal. The acquisition is expected to close by year-end and would bring World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD as its rivalry with Nvidia intensifies.

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