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"Visual-spatial intelligence is as fundamental as language." Fei-Fei Li says world models are the key to letting AI see the world, reason about it, interact with it, navigate it, and even 'build civilization upon it.' "It's very natural for me that World Labs' north star is to unlock spatial... show more

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