World Labs, Co-Founded by AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li, Secures $1 Billion in Funding
World Labs, a leading spatial intelligence AI company co-founded by the esteemed Stanford AI researcher, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, announced on February 18, 2026, that it has successfully raised $1 billion in a new funding round. Major technology investors led the round, including Autodesk, which invested a substantial $200 million. Other significant contributors included AMD, Nvidia, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Andreessen Horowitz.
World Labs is renowned for its specialization in developing “world models” – AI systems capable of generating and reasoning about immersive, interactive 3D environments. The company’s flagship product, Marble, empowers users to create spatially coherent, high-fidelity 3D worlds from images, video, or text prompts. These environments are persistent, editable, and can be exported to standard 3D formats.
The partnership with Autodesk is of strategic importance, as the two companies will collaborate to explore how World Labs’ models can seamlessly integrate with Autodesk’s design tools. The initial focus will be on entertainment, architecture, engineering, and manufacturing use cases. This investment marks Autodesk’s largest-ever startup investment and underscores the company’s commitment to advancing “physical-world AI” – systems capable of reasoning about geometry, physics, and three-dimensional space, rather than just text.
Source: World Labs