AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD is buying World Labs to pull frontier model work closer to its chip roadmap.
The $8.2 billion deal brings Fei-Fei Li to AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. World Labs said scaling its work requires tighter links between model research, systems, and compute, while AMD said those workloads will help shape future hardware. The companies already had an inference optimization and training partnership. The deal is expected to close before year-end, pending regulatory approval. TechCrunch AI's note
The $8.2 billion deal brings Fei-Fei Li to AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. World Labs said scaling its work requires tighter links between model research, systems, and compute, while AMD said those workloads will help shape future hardware. The companies already had an inference optimization and training partnership. The deal is expected to close before year-end, pending regulatory approval. TechCrunch AI's note
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