Fei-Fei Li 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
Computer scientist, Stanford professor and special adviser, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs, known for ImageNet, computer vision, spatial intelligence, and human-centered AI research and policy.
World Labs and Stanford University
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- Toward pressure
- +0.22
- Away pressure
- −0.03
- Net attributed pressure
- +0.19
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World Labs
- Co-founder and CEOcurrentDates not establishedSource
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Google
- Vice President and Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Google CloudformerFrom 2017Source
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- institutional profileFei-Fei Li at Stanford
- interview feedFei-Fei Li on PBS Firing Line
- institutional profileWorld Labs leadership and mission
Assessments involving Fei-Fei Li
AMD signs $8.2 billion World Labs deal to integrate frontier model research with compute
AMD signed an all-stock agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion, combining spatial-intelligence research with its hardware and software engineering. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026 subject to approvals. Li's proposed AMD role starts after closing, which has not occurred.
World Labs raises $1 billion to accelerate frontier spatial intelligence
World Labs raised $1 billion from technology and institutional investors to accelerate world models and spatial intelligence for robotics and other physically grounded systems.
Fei-Fei Li argues humans retain capabilities current AI still lacks
In a full PBS interview, Li said current AI still lacks human emotional intelligence and unique creativity, urged application-specific guardrails, and argued that people should retain agency over how AI is used.
Fei-Fei Li warns AI concentration leaves a global governance gap
In a UN Security Council briefing, Li said advanced AI resources were concentrated in a few companies and countries and called for public research capacity, shared safety norms, and evidence-based governance.
Fei-Fei Li launches World Labs with $230 million for frontier spatial AI
World Labs launched with $230 million to develop frontier systems that can perceive, generate, reason about, and interact with three-dimensional worlds.
Fei-Fei Li co-launches Stanford institute for human-centered AI
Stanford launched the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li as co-director and about 200 participating faculty. The institute was created to guide AI's social impact, design systems that augment people, study risks including job insecurity and bias, and influence policymakers.