Overview
- World Labs’ valuation is reported at just over $1 billion, according to the Financial Times, as the startup rolls out its first commercial world-model product.
- Marble converts text prompts, photos, videos, 3D layouts, and panoramas into editable, downloadable 3D environments and is offered in freemium and paid tiers.
- Li frames world models as the next frontier for AI, focused on agents that perceive and interact with physical space rather than relying solely on language.
- Her earlier ImageNet project created a massive labeled dataset and competition that helped trigger the deep-learning breakthrough in computer vision.
- Li immigrated to the U.S. at 15 and ran her family’s New Jersey dry-cleaning shop for seven years, later rising to global advisory roles including a UN board seat and receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.