Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1 billion for spatial intelligence, world models

As «the godmother of AI’s» world-building Marble model is taking off, some say World Labs has hit a $5 billion valuation, according to Reuters.

Most notably, they collected $200 million in funding from Autodesk — which makes 3D CAD software in a somewhat overlapping fashion.

They will now officially become advisors to World Labs, and are starting up a collaboration, writes TechCrunch.

— You might want to take an object that you’ve designed in our [platform], and put it in a context that you create through one of [World Labs’] prompts, says Daron Green, Autodesk’s chief scientist, to the website.

World Labs themselves have not provided a valuation from the funding round.

Read more: Autodesk’s announcement, World Lab’s announcement. More detail from TechCrunch, Reuters.