"Fei-Fei Li's World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk. The partnership will see the two companies collaborating to explore how World Labs' models - AI systems that can generate and reason about immersive 3D environments - can work alongside Autodesk's tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases."
"Autodesk has long helped people think spatially and solve real-world problems and, together, we share a clear purpose: building physical AI that augments human creativity and puts more powerful tools in the hands of designers, builders, and creators."
"Autodesk is one of the biggest developers of 3D CAD (computer-aided design) software. Its platform underpins architectural, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and entertainment workflows. That focus on the built world makes investment in advanced spatial AI a natural extension of its core business."
World Labs received a $200 million investment from Autodesk to collaborate on integrating World Labs' world models with Autodesk's design tools, beginning with entertainment use cases. World Labs' models can generate and reason about immersive 3D environments and the company's first product, Marble, enables creation of editable, downloadable 3D environments. Autodesk provides leading 3D CAD software across architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and entertainment, making spatial AI a strategic extension of its platform. Autodesk will advise World Labs and collaborate at the research and model level. The partnership is in early stages and could involve each company consuming the other's models. World Labs is pursuing further funding at a higher valuation.
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