World Labs in the Media
10 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
February 2026
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World Labs Leads Another AI-Heavy Lineup
This week’s largest U.S. funding rounds once again featured an AI-heavy cohort, along with sizable financings around fintech and energy tech. By far the largest deal was a $1 billion financing for World Labs, developer of AI models that interact with the 3D world.
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Prompts $1 Billion, Ricursive AI Chip Design Snares $335 Million, Google Joins AI Music Parade
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1 Billion, Ricursive secures $335 Million for AI chip design, and Google adds Lyria 3 music generation to Gemini.
Fei Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1bn to advance spatial intelligence
The round was backed by big names including Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk. Read more: Fei Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1bn to advance spatial intelli
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1bn to advance spatial intelligence
The round was backed by big names including Nvidia, AMD and Autodesk. Read more: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1bn to advance spatial intelli
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding
The startup said on Wednesday the investors included chip companies AMD, Nvidia, software firm Autodesk , Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Sea, among others.
World Labs closes $1B investment backed by Nvidia, AMD and Autodesk
Artificial intelligence model developer World Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $1 billion in funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Autodesk Inc. and several others. The engineering software maker invested $200 millio
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI
World Labs, the frontier artificial intelligence research and product company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in new funding. “We are focused on accelerating our mission to advance spatial intelligence by building world models that revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robo
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding
Feb 18 () - Prominent computer scientist Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1 billion in a funding round as the startup accelerates its efforts to advance "spatial intelligence." The startup said on Wednesday the investors included chip companies AMD, Nvidia, software firm Autodesk, Emerson Collectiv
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"
World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's AI start-up, raises one billion dollars
AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a novel approach to AI development.
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