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Dr. Fei-Fei Li co-founded the company World Labs, which is dedicated to developing spatially intelligent AI.
World Labs is focused on creating world models that are fundamentally 3D.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li claims that World Labs is the first company to solve the problem of creating a 3D generation foundation model.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li identifies creative fields (designers, 3D artists, VFX artists, game developers) and content creation for the metaverse (XR, AR, VR) as near-term commercial applications for generative 3D world models.
A major challenge in creating 3D foundation models is the lack of abundant, readily available training data compared to the text data available for LLMs.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li believes that AI is incomplete without spatial intelligence.
According to Dr. Fei-Fei Li, language as a problem in AI has been solved to a huge extent, while 3D spatial intelligence is an equally critical but unsolved problem.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li believes simulation is an underrated tool for training robotics models.
In Dr. Fei-Fei Li's opinion, haptics is a truly underappreciated modality in robotics, especially for manipulation tasks.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li hypothesizes that the future of robotics will involve a wide diversity of task-specific form factors because it is more energy-efficient than using a few standardized forms like humanoids.
The victory of the AlexNet model on the ImageNet challenge was a defining moment that helped spark the deep learning revolution.
World Labs is actively hiring engineers, AI researchers, and product thinkers with expertise in computer graphics, computer vision, data, generative AI, and machine learning infrastructure.