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AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

September 29

AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the AI research lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion.

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