AMD

Deals & regulation

1. Sep 28

   Acquired World Labs · $8.2B

2. Aug 6

   Acquired Taalas

Trends

• AI labs move inference onto custom silicon
• Robotics and world models attract capital on the way to deployment

Items

1. Sep 28

   AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2B

   AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's world-model and spatial-intelligence lab in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2B, expected to close by the end of 2026, to co-design hardware and systems around emerging model classes.

2. Aug 6

   AMD to acquire Taalas

   The Toronto startup's model-specific integrated circuits cast a model's weights directly into transistors, with its HC1 test chip serving Llama 3.1 8B at about 17,000 tokens per second; it is AMD's third AI acquisition in nine months.