World Labs

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World Labs Technologies, Inc.

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World Labs Technologies, Inc. is a U.S. AI company founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall, focused on building Large World Models (LWMs) for generating, perceiving, and interacting with 3D environments.

Founded2024United States

HQSan FranciscoUnited States

Total funding$1100000B3 · 2024–2026

Valuation$1 mld🦄post-money valuation after Series A round (2024) · 2024

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01 · About

World Labs

Founded 2024 · San Francisco, United States

Founders

Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder, CEO
Chinese-American computer scientist, Stanford professor and creator of ImageNet; co-founded World Labs in 2024.
Justin Johnson
Co-founder
American computer-vision researcher, Fei-Fei Li's PhD student and University of Michigan professor; co-founder of World Labs.
Christoph Lassner
Co-founder
German computer-vision and 3D graphics researcher, previously at Meta Reality Labs; co-founder of World Labs.
Ben Mildenhall
Co-founder
American 3D graphics researcher, co-creator of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF); previously at Google Research, co-founder of World Labs.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 3 technologies · 5 industries

What they do2Areas

AI infrastructure
Embodied AI

How they do it3Technologies

Generative AI
Embodied AI
Robotics

Who for5Industries

Software & Technology
Media & entertainment
Automotive
Industrial manufacturing
Robotics

03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ San Francisco · 2 offices · 2 regions

GlobalNorth America

04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2024 · Corporate Round

2024founded

ok. 50 employees (according to PitchBook, 2026)employees

$1.1Btotal funding

Corporate Roundlatest round

earlydevelopment stage

Privatenot listed

activestatus

$1.1B

total funding

3 · 2024–2026

Seed / Pre-SeedApril 2024Andreessen Horowitz, Radical VenturesFirst round closed in April 2024 at a valuation of approximately $200 million. Investors: Andreessen Horowitz and Radical Ventures.

ok. $130 mln

Series AJuly 2024NEARound led by NEA (June–July 2024), company valuation >$1B. Additional investors: NVIDIA (NVentures), Sanabil Investments, Temasek, Jeff Dean, Geoffrey Hinton, Ashton Kutcher.

$100 mln

Corporate RoundFebruary 2026Autodesk, AMD, NVIDIA, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, SeaRound announced February 18, 2026. Autodesk invested $200M. The company did not disclose a new valuation; earlier reports (Bloomberg, January 2026) indicated negotiations at a valuation of approximately $5B.

$1 mld

05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

1 ai systems

Marble

World Labs product for creating, editing, and sharing persistent 3D worlds from text, images, and video.

06 · Relations

Organizational relations

2 strategic relations

Strategic relations

Partnership
Autodesk invested $200M in World Labs' $1B round (February 2026) and serves as a strategic advisor. The partnership covers integration of World Labs technology with Autodesk tools, with particular focus on media and entertainment applications and 3D workflows.
Funded by
NVIDIAKey investors across both funding rounds (2024 and 2026): Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Radical Ventures, NVIDIA (NVentures), AMD, Autodesk ($200M), Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research, Sea, Sanabil Investments (Saudi Arabia), Temasek (Singapore), Cisco Investments, Adobe Ventures. Individual investors: Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Geoffrey Hinton, Ashton Kutcher.

07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 6 external links

Classification

Statusactive
Development stageearly
Listed onNoprivate
Organization typeStartup+ AI Lab

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

3 articles

News13 July 2026

World models: what they are and why AI is betting billions on them

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News6 March 2026

InSpatio-WorldFM: Otwarty model 3D rzuca wyzwanie imperium Fei-Fei Li

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