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Incident2026-09-28

World Labs signed a definitive agreement to join AMD. Dr. Fei-Fei Li will become AMD’s Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist. Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall will continue leading the World Labs team. The combined group will form a frontier research organization. They aim to build an end-to-end open AI ecosystem. The deal builds on a year-long technical partnership. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026.

What changed

World Labs operated independently since its 2024 founding.

What it unlocks

Scaling AI research and compute efforts under AMD’s hardware and ecosystem.

  • expected close by end of 2026

What you need to act on it

  • regulatory approvals
  • customary closing conditions

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