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Li: World Labs was founded to build spatial intelligence beyond LLMs

Fei-Fei Li · After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs · Nov 25, 2025 · at 2:14

Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson discuss the origins and founding focus of their startup, World Labs.

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“I think around, you know, more than two years ago, for sure, I think both independently, both of us have been looking at the development of the large models and thinking about What's beyond language models and this idea of building world models, spatial intelligence really was natural for us. So we started talking and decided that we should just put all the eggs in one basket and focus on solving this problem and started world apps together.”

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