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1. quanto · 1790648684 · focus · HN ↗

   I hesitate to recast the discussion in a negative tone, but this doesn't sound right on technical terms.

   Is World Labs' Atlas genuinely novel? Their demos do not seem to be better than the existing state of the art.

   Fei Fei Li has been criticized even in the ImageNet days as a shower than a doer. Her roadshow past two years extolling "world model" in vague terms didn't show much insight, and her company's demo seems to merely rehash what has been available in the field for years. If you haven't seen the current SoTA in Gaussian splats, then World Labs' demos may seem cool, but they are mostly standard in the field now. If someone is more familiar with the inner workings of World Labs, I am happy to be corrected (but inner details wouldn't change the fact that demos are no better than SoTA).

   I really had high hopes for World Labs, but I am quite saddened to realize that perhaps all this was just a financial maneuver and the detractors were right from the beginning.

   source: I used to be in the downstream field: Gaussian spats for robotics. The exact field that World Labs' is supposed to help.

   1. edg5000 · 1790654439 · focus · HN ↗

      If the World Labs people are talented, it could be just an acquihire right?

      1. r0b05 · 1790655629 · focus · HN ↗

         Correct, this is an acquisition and will benefit AMD a lot. In fact, AMD has made some great acquisitions lately and are on a roll.
      2. mathisfun123 · 1790657579 · focus · HN ↗

         8B/200=40M (avg) per acquihire. you really think those people were worth that much?

         AMD has made a lot of acquihires in the last few years. this ain't one of em.

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