‘Godmother Of AI’ Fei-Fei Li gets a ‘new job’; to join AMD in $8.2 billion deal

AMD has announced its intention to acquire World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion. This acquisition aims to strengthen AMD’s AI hardware and software development capabilities by gaining expert researchers. Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist after the acquisition closes. World Labs specializes in developing advanced AI models, which are essential for evolving compute infrastructure.