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Ars Technica 2 weeks ago 49 ● 8 sources
AMD will acquire the AI company World Labs by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval. The deal is valued at $8.2 billion. The acquisition brings World Labs’ world-model AI work into AMD and escalates competition against Nvidia.
Exponential View 2 weeks ago 27 ● 12 sources
Anthropic filed an IPO prospectus (S-1) as it prepares to enter public markets. The filing shows an $8bn operating loss for 2025 and a $42bn net loss (including an accounting charge). The company projects revenue growth that outpaces costs into 2026, with a likely move to profitability afterward.
Tech Funding News 2 weeks ago 28 ● 8 sources
AMD agreed to acquire World Labs through an all-stock deal. The transaction is valued at approximately $8.2 billion and is expected to close by the end of 2026, pending regulatory approvals. Fei-Fei Li will move into a new top AMD executive role while World Labs’ spatial-intelligence team continues to lead its work as AMD expands its Physical AI push.
Latent Space 2 weeks ago 30 ● 8 sources
AMD bought World Labs for $8.2B, and World Labs says its Atlas spatial-intelligence model predicts the next camera view from 2D images to address sparse reconstruction in multiview geometry. Atlas is presented as improving results versus specialized models and applying to robotics simulation, design/engineering, science, and real-world reconstruction. The acquisition and Atlas work together to expand AMD’s (through World Labs) capabilities for spatial intelligence and robotics-related use cases.
Fortune 36 ● 8 sources
AMD is acquiring World Labs, the two-year-old physical AI startup cofounded by Fei-Fei Li. The all-stock deal is valued at $8.2 billion. The acquisition will bring World Labs’ AI and world-model technology and team into AMD, with Li joining as executive VP and chief scientist and AMD expected to advance physical-AI hardware and compete more closely with Nvidia.
SiliconANGLE 2 weeks ago 31 ● 8 sources
AMD announced it plans to acquire World Labs by buying the world model developer in stock.
Sequoia 2 weeks ago 7
Salesforce will acquire Listen Labs, a customer experience and AI market research platform.
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