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  "id": 10565302,
  "title": "AMD buys firm founded by AI ‘godmother’ Fei-Fei Li",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/amd-buys-firm-founded-by-ai-godmother-fei-fei-li-10565302",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T23:11:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2026/09/29/amd-buys-firm-founded-by-ai-godmother-fei-fei-li"
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  "account": "Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced on Monday the acquisition of World Labs, an artificial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, a prominent researcher often referred to as \"The Godmother of AI.\" The deal is valued at approximately $8.2 billion and will make Li the chief scientist at AMD. Li founded World Labs with the goal of developing spatial intelligence technology capable of simulating 3D environments from images, video, and text. Unlike popular AI systems that generate text and images, World Labs focuses on creating world models that learn how the physical world operates, allowing them to simulate and predict real-world events. These applications have potential uses in robotics and virtual simulations. Li expressed her enthusiasm for the future of the technology in a blog post, stating that AMD aims to accelerate the development of spatial intelligence by scaling efforts, expanding reach, and getting closer to the hardware. While AMD's market valuation reached $1 trillion this month, it still lags behind rival chip company Nvidia, which is often seen as the leader in artificial intelligence development.",
  "summary": "The deal is valued at approximately US$8.2 billion and will make Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford computer science professor, chief scientist at AMD.",
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        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "AMD acquires startup founded by ‘godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li for $8.2 billion",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/amd-acquires-startup-founded-by-godmother-of-ai-fei-fei-li-for-8-2",
        "published": "2026-09-28T21:56:04.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "AMD buys firm founded by AI ‘godmother’ Fei-Fei Li",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/amd-buys-firm-founded-by-ai-godmother-fei-fei-li",
        "published": "2026-09-28T23:11:33.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "AMD buys firm founded by AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/amd-buys-firm-founded-by-ai-godmother-fei-fei-li",
        "published": "2026-09-29T00:00:14.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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