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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has raised $1 billion from a16z, Nvidia, AMD and others to advance its global models focused on robotics and scientific discovery.— World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a new approach to AI development.
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