Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

2025/07/01

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A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.In this fireside, she ...

Highlights

In a candid conversation at AI Startup School in San Francisco, Dr. Fei-Fei Li reflects on her pioneering contributions to artificial intelligence and shares insights into the field's evolution and future challenges.

03:33

CNNs revolutionized machine vision during the ImageNet Challenge.

15:07

Solving spatial intelligence is key to advancing AI beyond LLMs

29:25

Encouraging intellectual fearlessness in AI research

Chapters

How ImageNet Sparked the Deep Learning Revolution

00:00

Why Understanding Space Might Be AI’s Toughest Challenge

15:07

From Dry Cleaning to AI Leadership: An Unconventional Journey

26:06

Transcript

Fei-Fei Li: My entire career is going after problems that are just so hard, bordering, delusional. To me, AGI will not be complete without spatial intelligence, and I want to solve that problem. I just love being an entrepreneur. Forget about what you have...