Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder and CEO, World Labs; Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
AMD agreed in September 2026 to buy World Labs, the AI lab she leads, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion.
- Born
- 1976-07-03, Beijing, China
- Now
- Co-founder and CEO, World Labs
- Studied
- Caltech, Princeton University
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Moved from China to New Jersey at 16 and spent weekends in high school working at her family's dry-cleaning shop.
en.wikipedia.org - First
Created ImageNet, the huge labeled image database that fueled the 2010s boom in computer vision, with students in the late 2000s.
news.stanford.edu - Turning point
In September 2026 AMD agreed to buy her two-year-old startup World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock; she is set to become AMD's chief scientist.
ir.amd.com - Connection
King Charles III handed her the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which she shared with Nvidia's Jensen Huang and others.
news.stanford.edu - In their words
Says running a startup brings out her "tiger mom" side, since she is by far the most senior person there.
businessinsider.com - Side project
Co-founded AI4ALL in 2017, a nonprofit working to increase diversity in artificial intelligence.
en.wikipedia.org
Career
- World LabsCo-founder and CEO2024 to now
- GoogleChief Scientist of AI/ML and Vice President, Google Cloud2017–2018
- Stanford UniversitySequoia Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director, Stanford HAIfrom 2009
- Princeton UniversityAssistant Professor2006–2009
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAssistant Professor2005–2006
Education
- PhD, Electrical engineering, Caltech, 2005
- BA, Physics, Princeton University, 1999
