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

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

The a16z Show

18 HOURS AGO
The a16z Show

The a16z Show

18 HOURS AGO
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World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, and Ben Mildenhall join a16z General Partner Martin Casado to discuss Atlas, their latest world model, and what it reveals about the pursuit of spatial intelligence. At the center of Atlas is what the tea...

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World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, and Ben Mildenhall explain Atlas, a world model built around predicting unseen views of physical environments.
03:52
Atlas predicts new views of the world
10:18
Spatial intelligence starts with grounded pixels
16:07
From hundreds of photos to three
18:28
Generation fills what capture misses
24:40
The moment that changed everything
30:54
Robotics’ biggest bottleneck is data
38:44
Editability is the key
43:14
Viewpoint prediction is the equivalent of next-token prediction

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Atlas and the new-view prediction primitive
00:00
Grounding images in space
04:36
From Gaussian splats to scalable reconstruction
11:11
From virtual worlds to robotics
29:13
Control, dynamics, and the foundations of intelligence
39:40

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Fei-Fei Li: On the path to spatial intelligence, generating pixels that are truly spatially contextualized and grounded, that is the very hard step that Atlas has taken. Justin Johnson: You know, LLMs are built on next token prediction. We've seen video m...