The Stanford University researcher’s startup emerged from stealth on Friday. Other backers include venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and NEA, as well as major AI figures like Geoffrey Hinton and Andrej Karpathy. (The Logic)

Talking point: San Francisco-based World Labs is trying to do for 3D space what the large language models powering ChatGPT have done for written and verbal communication. The startup’s models will allow designers and engineers to generate and play with detailed renderings of physical places. World Labs CEO Li is a luminary in the field of machine vision. She established ImageNet, a picture database used to test some of the breakthrough methods of building deep learning systems that made modern AI possible. Li is already a limited and scientific partner at Toronto’s Radical.