Fei-Fei Li 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
Computer scientist, Stanford professor and special adviser, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs, known for ImageNet, computer vision, spatial intelligence, and human-centered AI research and policy.
World Labs and Stanford University
- Evidence items
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- Toward pressure
- +0.15
- Away pressure
- −0.03
- Net attributed pressure
- +0.12
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World Labs
- Co-founder and CEOcurrentDates not establishedSource
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Google
- Vice President and Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Google CloudformerFrom 2017Source
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- institutional profileFei-Fei Li at Stanford
- interview feedFei-Fei Li on PBS Firing Line
- institutional profileWorld Labs leadership and mission
Assessments involving Fei-Fei Li
World Labs raises $1 billion to accelerate frontier spatial intelligence
World Labs raised $1 billion from technology and institutional investors to accelerate world models and spatial intelligence for robotics and other physically grounded systems.
Fei-Fei Li argues humans retain capabilities current AI still lacks
In a full PBS interview, Li said current AI still lacks human emotional intelligence and unique creativity, urged application-specific guardrails, and argued that people should retain agency over how AI is used.
Fei-Fei Li warns AI concentration leaves a global governance gap
In a UN Security Council briefing, Li said advanced AI resources were concentrated in a few companies and countries and called for public research capacity, shared safety norms, and evidence-based governance.
Fei-Fei Li launches World Labs with $230 million for frontier spatial AI
World Labs launched with $230 million to develop frontier systems that can perceive, generate, reason about, and interact with three-dimensional worlds.
Fei-Fei Li co-launches Stanford institute for human-centered AI
Stanford launched the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li as co-director and about 200 participating faculty. The institute was created to guide AI's social impact, design systems that augment people, study risks including job insecurity and bias, and influence policymakers.