AMD agrees to acquire World Labs

AMD has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, an AI model and research lab led by Dr. Fei-Fei Li. The company said the deal will add a team of researchers and model experts to support development across AI hardware, software and systems.

AMD said World Labs will help it better understand how workloads are changing as AI expands into reasoning, robotics, simulation and physical AI. The acquisition is positioned as part of AMD’s broader strategy to build AI infrastructure for an open ecosystem and align future technology roadmaps with emerging models and applications.