Full-Time
Posted on 10/31/2025
Generates interactive 3D scenes from images
No salary listed
San Francisco, CA, USA
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World Labs is building tools for spatial intelligence through Large World Models (LWMs) that can perceive, generate, and interact with 3D environments. Its main product is an AI system that can turn a single image into an entire interactive 3D scene, useful for gaming, simulation, and digital content creation. The technology works by taking a 2D image and generating full 3D representations and interactions, forming a platform or service for developers to create 3D content and experiences. Unlike many competitors, World Labs focuses specifically on zero-shot 3D scene generation from a single image and providing end-to-end 3D content creation capabilities as a scalable platform. Its goal is to enable rapid creation and manipulation of rich 3D worlds for developers and companies in gaming, simulation, and digital media.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$1.2B
Headquarters
Stanford, California
Founded
2024
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Autodesk has made a $200 million strategic investment in World Labs, the spatial AI startup co-founded by Stanford computer scientist Dr Fei-Fei Li. The investment gives Autodesk an advisory role and close collaboration on research focused on physical-world AI systems that understand space, structure, materials, physics and time. World Labs develops multimodal world models designed to understand and generate realistic three-dimensional environments. Autodesk said this aligns with demands from its core industries—architecture, engineering, construction and manufacturing—where designing requires AI that can reason in three dimensions and support iterative workflows. CEO Andrew Anagnost said the investment represents a departure from AI spending focused on ever-larger models. The partnership aims to develop AI that understands geometry and physics rather than language alone.
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World Labs, founded by Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li, secured $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation in a round led by NEA. The company completed two funding rounds within two months, with the first in April involving Andreessen Horowitz and Radical Ventures. World Labs, which became a unicorn four months post-establishment, develops AI models for gaming and robotics that can create detailed digital replicas of real-world objects and environments without extensive data.