AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion

In the statement made by AMD, one of the company's artificial intelligence pioneers, Dr. It has been reported that a definitive agreement has been reached to acquire World Labs, led by Fei-Fei Li.

It was stated in the statement that the team of world-class researchers and model experts will join AMD with the acquisition, and that this will strengthen the company's capacity to develop artificial intelligence hardware, software and systems in line with the needs of developing artificial intelligence models and applications.

In the statement, it was noted that the acquisition, which will be carried out entirely in exchange for shares, is valued at approximately $ 8.2 billion and is expected to be completed by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other ordinary closing conditions.

The statement pointed out that the needs for IT infrastructure are also diversifying as artificial intelligence expands into the fields of reasoning, robotics, simulation and physical artificial intelligence, and that World Labs' expertise in developing advanced models will give AMD a deeper understanding of how workloads are changing and will help shape the company's future technology roadmaps.

In the statement, it was stated that the acquisition will advance AMD's strategy of providing artificial intelligence infrastructure for an open ecosystem.

Headquartered in San Francisco, World Labs develops spatial intelligence models that create, reconstruct and simulate interactive 3D environments from text, image and video inputs. The company is also working on technologies for robotic learning and simulation.