World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI
Publish Date: 2026-02-18 16:11:00
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- World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, secured $1 billion in new funding.
- The company focuses on advancing spatial intelligence by developing world models, aiming to revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and more.
- World Labs launched its first product, Marble, an AI model that allows users to create 3D worlds from images, video, or text.
- The firm has ambitions to teach computers to see and understand the world in three dimensions, with potential impacts on industries such as healthcare and manufacturing.
- World Labs previously raised $230 million in September 2024 to work on large world models (LWMs) that interact with the 3D world.
- The company aims to transition AI models from 2D to full 3D worlds, providing spatial intelligence comparable to human understanding.
- Marble signifies World Labs’ shift from research to commercialization, available in freemium and paid tiers, and supports export in Gaussian splats, traditional meshes, and video files.
- The future of AI lies in the ability to understand and interact within 3D physical worlds, according to Li.
