Today we are announcing the formation of World Labs: a spatial intelligence AI company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds - both virtual and real - endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own. Human spatial intelligence evolved over millennia; but in this time of extraordinary progress, we see the opportunity to imbue AI with this ability in the near term.
World Labs was founded by visionary AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li along with Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall; each a world-renowned technologist in computer vision and graphics. We are bringing together the most formidable slate of pixel talent ever assembled - from AI research to systems engineering to product design - creating a tight feedback loop between our spatially intelligent foundation models and products that will empower our users.