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World Labs Technologies, Inc.

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

World Labs is an artificial intelligence research company founded by Fei-Fei Li. The company focuses on developing AI systems capable of spatial understanding of the world and building world models. The technologies developed by World Labs have applications in robotics, autonomous systems, and simulations of physical environments.

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

03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ San Francisco
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
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

2 strategic relations

Strategic relations

2
  • 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

3 classification · 5 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stageearly
  • Listed onNoprivate

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

2 articles
InSpatio-WorldFM: Otwarty model 3D rzuca wyzwanie imperium Fei-Fei Li
NewsMarch 6, 2026

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

Marble od World Labs AI generuje gotowe światy 3D
NewsMarch 1, 2026

Marble od World Labs AI generuje gotowe światy 3D