Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li is a prominent AI scientist known in Chinese tech media as the "Godmother of AI" . In April 2024, while serving as director of Stanford's HAI (Human-Centered AI) Institute, she founded World Labs to build "spatial intelligence" — AI systems that understand dynamic three-dimensional physical worlds . The company attracted over $200 million from NVIDIA, AMD, and Adobe within three months, reaching unicorn status at a valuation above $1 billion in what was described as the fastest such rise for an AI startup . Her work on world models has since been positioned alongside that of scientists like Yann LeCun as a potential next frontier beyond large language models, toward artificial general intelligence that truly grasps physical reality .