World Labs announced that it has raised $1 billion in new funding from investors that include AMD, Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, NVIDIA, and Sea, among others.
Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost said separately that they chipped in $200 million.
“This investment reflects our shared conviction that the most powerful AI should expand what people can imagine, design, and build rather than replace them,” said Anagnost in a statement.
He said the investment enables Autodesk to serve as an advisor to World Labs and have close collaboration at the research and model level.
“The focus is on exchanging ideas, shaping direction, and strengthening Autodesk’s long-term AI foundation,” he added.
World Labs is focused on advancing spatial intelligence by building world models that revolutionize storytelling, creativity, robotics, scientific discovery, and beyond.
Its first product, dubbed Marble, enables anyone to create spatially cohesive, high-fidelity, and persistent 3D worlds from images, video, or text.
Marble is a World Model that creates 3D worlds from image or text prompts. It is available to an early set of beta users to create 3D worlds for themselves.
Marble is now “massively” multimodal. Marble can create 3D worlds from text, images, video, or coarse 3D layouts; Marble also lets you interactively edit, expand, and combine worlds.
Once generated, 3D worlds can be exported as Gaussian splats, meshes, or videos. These new capabilities let users create and edit worlds with fine-grained control; and makes those worlds more useful than ever before.
The startup also launched Marble Labs, a creative hub where imagination meets experimentation. It is where artists, engineers, and designers push the boundaries of world models, showcasing bold ideas, real-world workflows, and new possibilities across gaming, VFX, design, robotics, and beyond.
Marble Labs is also home to in-depth case studies, tutorials, and documentation that give anyone the tools to learn, build, and share their own 3D worlds.
