PYMNTS.com September 13, 2024

World Labs, a newly formed company, said Friday (Sept. 13) that it has raised $230 million to build large world models (LWMs) that “perceive, generate and interact with the 3D world.”

“We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds — both virtual and real — endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own,” the company said in a Friday post on LinkedIn.

World Labs was founded by artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Fei-Fei Li and computer vision and graphics technologists Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner and Ben Mildenhall, according to the post.

In a Friday blog post announcing the company’s formation and funding round, World Labs said that spatially intelligent LWMs will...

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