World Labs Secures $1 Billion to Expand 3D Spatial Intelligence Technology
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's company, World Labs, raises a massive $1 billion funding round to advance its spatial intelligence models. The investment supports the commercial growth of Marble, a tool that generates 3D worlds from standard 2D inputs.
World Labs, an artificial intelligence company founded by pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raises $1 billion in new funding to accelerate its mission of advancing spatial intelligence. The company focuses on building large world models that teach computers to see and understand the world in three dimensions rather than just as flat 2D pixels. This massive financial boost helps the firm expand its research and scale its operations across multiple industries.
The startup’s first commercial product is Marble, an innovative AI model that enables users to create fully realized 3D worlds using simple images, video, or text inputs. By offering this technology through freemium and paid tiers, World Labs transitions from a pure research organization into a commercial enterprise. Marble represents a significant shift in the AI landscape as the industry moves beyond basic language and image generation into spatial reasoning.
World Labs achieves this latest milestone remarkably quickly, having already reached unicorn status within its first four months of operation. The company’s underlying spatial AI technology holds transformative potential for a wide variety of sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, architecture, robotics, and entertainment. With this new capital, World Labs plans to revolutionize storytelling, creativity, and scientific discovery by giving AI a rich, three-dimensional understanding of physical space.