Fei-Fei Li, Stanford professor and co-founder of World Labs, urged technologists at the Ai4 2026 conference in Las Vegas to stop scaring people and overpromising about AI, warning that extreme messagi…
Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer and founder of World Labs, warned that growing public opposition to artificial intelligence in the US could have global consequences, urging technologists to better communica…
World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, says its Real-to-Sim-to-Real (R2S2R) engine trained robot policies entirely in simulation that ran autonomously for one hour on RB-Y1, YAM, Flexiv, an…
World Labs has developed a simulation engine that can turn a single robot task into thousands of training scenarios, enabling trained models to run for an hour across five different robot platforms wi…
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments, generating thousands of controlled variations fro…
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li, and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng made the case for keeping AI open, despite safety concerns. Ng advo…
Fei-Fei Li and the World Labs team propose a functional taxonomy of world models, dividing them into renderers, simulators, and planners, all connected by the reinforcement learning loop of the partia…
World-model startups raised roughly $3.5 billion in a single quarter, with Fei-Fei Li's World Labs closing a $1 billion round, Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raising $1.03 billion, Odyssey valued at $1.45 bill…
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer science professor known as the 'Godmother of AI,' said on the 'Huberman Lab' podcast that the biggest risk of AI in schools is that it will take away students' motiva…
A developer built a robot named Bubbles controlled by Anthropic's Claude LLM using the model's computer use feature, which processes screenshots and outputs mouse coordinates. The robot, assembled fro…
World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup co-founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li in 2024, acquired SceniX on July 21 to bring high-fidelity simulation technology in-house for training robots in digita…
Fei-Fei Li announced on July 21st, 2026, that robotics simulation startup SceniX is joining World Labs, an organization focused on accelerating spatial-intelligence research. SceniX, founded by Yunzhu…
Physical AI systems such as robot foundation models (RFMs) pose urgent safety risks that are a blind spot in current AI safety research, according to a new analysis. Unlike disembodied LLMs, RFMs can …
World models, an AI architecture that learns dynamics from observation rather than predicting text, are emerging as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, with leaders including Yann LeCun, Dem…
A new hackathon platform, the One Shot Challenge, launches with free entry and sponsored prizes, requiring participants to build complete apps, games, or worlds from a single AI prompt using models li…
World models, a new category of AI that simulates the physical world, are gaining momentum as an alternative to large language models (LLMs), with experts from MIT, Runway, and World Labs highlighting…
World models, AI systems capable of understanding physical environments, have become a major focus in 2026, attracting billions in funding from investors. Startups like AMI Labs, World Labs, Runway, L…
Top AI developers are shifting focus from chatbots to 'world models' that teach AI systems to understand and navigate physical environments, aiming to create more intelligent and embodied AI. Research…
General Intuition, an AI research lab spun out of Medal, raised $320 million at a $2 billion valuation to train AI models using gameplay data. The funding, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, will …
Investors are pouring billions into world models, a new AI category focused on spatial intelligence, as Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $230 million in 2024 and a larger 2026 round f…