AMD以约82亿美元收购World Labs，李飞飞任首席科学家
Great news for world models and spatial-intelligence.
AI硬件巨头重磅并购，AMD通过收购World Labs补齐模型能力并绑定李飞飞，直接对标Nvidia的软硬一体战略，对算力产业链格局影响深远。
Great news for world models and spatial-intelligence.
世界模型与空间智能领域传来佳音。
AMD agreed to buy Dr. Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for ~$8.2B in stock, installing Li as chief scientist.
AMD 同意以约 82 亿美元的股票收购李飞飞博士的 World Labs，并任命李飞飞为首席科学家。
Thats ~64% above the $5B valuation talk of World Lab for a $1B February round, which AMD and Nvidia both joined.
这一价格比 World Lab 在 2 月份完成由 AMD 和 Nvidia 共同参与的 10 亿美元融资时所讨论的 50 亿美元估值高出约 64%。
World Labs gets the computing power and engineering depth its growing model research now demands, while AMD gains about 70 researchers building models for robotics and 3D simulation, giving it early insight into those workloads so it can shape future chips and systems around them.
World Labs 获得了其日益增长的模式研究所需的计算能力和工程深度；而 AMD 则获得了约 70 名致力于构建机器人和 3D 模拟模型的科研人员，从而能够提前洞察这些工作负载，以便围绕它们塑造未来的芯片和系统。
Strategically, AMD can also offer customers its own AI models alongside hardware, strengthening its data center pitch against its larger rival, and paying in stock that has nearly tripled this year makes the price cost under 1% of the company.
在战略层面，AMD 还能向客户同时提供其自有 AI 模型与硬件，从而增强其在数据中心领域对抗更大竞争对手的竞争力；此外，以今年股价已近乎翻三倍的公司股票支付，使得交易成本不到公司市值的 1%。
Because AMD shares have nearly tripled this year to about $1T in value, paying in stock costs it under 1% of the company.
由于 AMD 股价今年已近乎翻三倍，市值约为 1 万亿美元，因此以股票支付的成本不到公司市值的 1%。
The purchase also mirrors Nvidia's habit of bundling models and services with chips.
此次收购也效仿了 Nvidia 将模型与服务与芯片捆绑销售的惯例。
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