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World Labs
Marble: 3D worlds from images and text. $1B, Feb 2026.
- HQ
- San Francisco
- Founded
- 2024
- Web
- worldlabs.ai
- Camps
- World models
What it does
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs builds spatial models: Marble turns images, video or text into persistent 3D worlds. It raised $1B in February 2026, including $200M from Autodesk, which wants world models inside its design tools.
Camp membership over time
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2024 – nowWorld modelsSources TechCrunch 2026-02-18
Capital
| Amount | Kind | Valuation | Date | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $230M | seed and Series A | $1B reported | Sep 2024 | Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Radical Ventures, NVentures Raised over two rounds; valuation reported above $1B. | TechCrunch |
| $1B | funding round | Feb 2026 | Autodesk, AMD, Nvidia, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Sea Autodesk put in $200M and is an adviser. Bloomberg reported a ~$5B valuation in talks; not confirmed. | TechCrunch |
People
General sources
TechCrunch 2026-02-18