AMD 82亿美元收购世界模型初创公司 World Labs
AMD acquires World Labs, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's world models startup
AI 硬件巨头跨界重金收购前沿世界模型团队，这一并购案将深刻影响具身智能与空间计算的产业格局，值得从业者重点关注。
Chipmaker AMD and world models company World Labs announced that AMD will acquire the AI company by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval. The transaction is valued at $8.2 billion.
芯片制造商AMD和世界模型公司World Labs宣布，AMD将在年底前收购这家AI公司，前提是获得监管机构的批准。该交易价值82亿美元。
In 2024, computer vision scientist Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs with fellow researchers Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall, with $230 million in funding, some of which came from AMD.
2024年，计算机视觉科学家李飞飞与研究人员Justin Johnson、Christoph Lassner和Ben Mildenhall共同创立了World Labs，融资2.3亿美元，其中部分资金来自AMD。
The company began working on new world models, which are AI models that aim to provide a useful, predictive simulation of the physical world. Competing architectures exist (earlier this year, Ars interviewed World Labs co-founder Ben Mildenhall and others in the field about exactly that), but many involve training a model on vast amounts of video data.
该公司开始致力于开发新的世界模型（world models），这是一种旨在提供对物理世界的有用预测性模拟的AI模型。目前存在竞争性的架构（今年早些时候，《Ars Technica》采访了World Labs联合创始人Ben Mildenhall及其他领域专家，探讨的就是这一话题），但许多方案涉及在海量视频数据上训练模型。
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