'AI godmother' Fei-Fei Li raises $230 million to launch AI startup

By Anna Tong and Katie Paul

(Reuters) - Fei-Fei Li, a leading artificial intelligence researcher, has raised $230 million for a startup she and three colleagues founded to make AI technology that can understand how the three-dimensional physical world works, the company said on Friday.

Initial funding for World Labs was led jointly by Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates and Radical Ventures. Other investors included AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and Nvidia's NVentures.

World Labs declined to share its valuation.

Li, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023, led AI at Google Cloud from 2017 to 2018, served on Twitter's board of directors and has done stints advising policymakers, including at the White House.