Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI
The a16z Show
19 HOURS AGO
Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI
Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI

The a16z Show
19 HOURS AGO
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.
The conversation examines Atlas as a spatial intelligence system that combines generation, reconstruction, and simulation through new view prediction. The guests explain how camera-grounded representations enable sparse-input 3D reconstruction, navigable scenes, and creative workflows, then discuss scaling, robotics data, dynamics, editability, and the possibility that viewpoint prediction is a foundational primitive for intelligence.
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Atlas predicts new views of the world
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Spatial intelligence starts with grounded pixels
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From hundreds of photos to three
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Generation fills what capture misses
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The moment that changed everything
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Robotics’ biggest bottleneck is data
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Editability is the key
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Viewpoint prediction is the equivalent of next-token prediction