{"id":188629,"date":"2026-02-18T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:40:09","slug":"world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai\/\">World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 16:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, secured $1 billion in new funding.<\/li>\n<li>The company focuses on advancing spatial intelligence by developing world models, aiming to revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and more.<\/li>\n<li>World Labs launched its first product, Marble, an AI model that allows users to create 3D worlds from images, video, or text.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>World Labs previously raised $230 million in September 2024 to work on large world models (LWMs) that interact with the 3D world.<\/li>\n<li>The company aims to transition AI models from 2D to full 3D worlds, providing spatial intelligence comparable to human understanding.<\/li>\n<li>Marble signifies World Labs\u2019 shift from research to commercialization, available in freemium and paid tiers, and supports export in Gaussian splats, traditional meshes, and video files.<\/li>\n<li>The future of AI lies in the ability to understand and interact within 3D physical worlds, according to Li.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/world-labs-raises-1-billion-to-scale-spatial-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-18 16:11:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/World-Labs-fundraise1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188631,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188629\/revisions\/188631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}