The Financial Times reports that World Labs, Fei-Fei Li’s AI research company, has successfully secured a substantial amount of funding from various investment firms such as Andreessen Horowitz and Radical Ventures, currently exceeding a billion dollars.
Fei-Fei Li, an American researcher of Chinese descent, currently teaches at Stanford University and has previously worked briefly with Google. She is a trailblazer in the field of computer vision research and gained recognition for founding the ImageNet project, which has become a standard benchmark for vision AI and the use of GPUs in deep learning processing in the 2010s. She is widely known in the industry as the Godmother of AI.
It is still unclear what Fei-Fei Li’s company, World Labs, aims to achieve. However, in a recent TED Talk, she touched upon the concept of spatial intelligence, which enables artificial intelligence to understand the context of surrounding spaces, both in the physical and virtual worlds. For more details, refer to the accompanying video.
Source: Financial Times, The Verge, Quartz
TLDR: Fei-Fei Li’s company, World Labs, has received significant funding and she is recognized as a pioneer in AI research, particularly in computer vision and spatial intelligence.
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