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Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI

Sep 4, 2026 · 44m

Summary

In this episode, World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, and Ben Mildenhall discuss Atlas, a new frontier model built on "new view prediction" to advance spatial intelligence. They explain how Atlas unifies 3D reconstruction and generation, allowing users to create spatially grounded environments from just a few images, drastically reducing the capture requirements for dense reconstruction. The guests also explore the model's potential to accelerate robotics by enabling efficient real-to-sim data generation and discuss the future roadmap for integrating dynamics and interaction i…

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