著名计算机科学家、美国国家工程院院士、美国国家医学院院士李飞飞创办的AI公司World Labs，近日已完成两轮融资，最新一轮融资额约1亿美元，公司最新估值已达10亿美元。World Labs成立于今年4月，致力于发展AI的空间智能，以解决AI在三维空间感知和理解方面的难题。短短三个多月，World Labs吸引了硅谷知名风投a16z、AI基金Radical Ventures等头部机构的关注。
现年48岁的李飞飞，在斯坦福大学的演讲中表示，通用人工智能（AGI）和空间智能将填补“视觉”和“动作”之间的空白。她坚信数据对AI的重要性，并在普林斯顿大学期间选择了物理专业，随后转向计算机科学和神经科学，并在加州理工学院主要攻读电子工程博士学位。博士毕业后，李飞飞加入了斯坦福大学AI实验室，开始了她的学术研究生涯。2007年，李飞飞在斯坦福大学启动了ImageNet项目，这是一个用于视觉对象识别软件研究的大型可视化数据库，包含超过1400万张图像、涵盖21800个类别的图像识别数据库。ImageNet的数据库结构基本上是金字塔型，包括目录、子目录和图片集，每一个节点相当于一个项目或子类别，且每个节点含有至少500个对应物体的可供训练的图片/图像。2009年6月，ImageNet的初始版本正式发布。
李飞飞的AI新公司之所以能在三个月内估值超70亿，成为最快独角兽，得益于她在AI领域的深厚积累和影响力，以及她对AI数据价值的深刻理解。她的创业成功也印证了AI技术在空间智能领域的巨大潜力和市场需求。
英语如下：
News Title: “AI ‘Godmother’ Li Fei-Fei’s New Venture Becomes Fastest Unicorn”
Keywords: Li Fei-Fei, Unicorn, AI Startup
News Content:
Li Fei-Fei, a renowned computer scientist, member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and member of the National Academy of Medicine, founded AI company World Labs, which has recently completed two rounds of financing. The latest round of financing is approximately $100 million, bringing the company’s latest valuation to $1 billion. World Labs was established in April this year and is dedicated to developing AI spatial intelligence to address the challenges of AI in three-dimensional space perception and understanding. In just over three months, World Labs has attracted the attention of top venture capital firms in Silicon Valley such as a16z and AI fund Radical Ventures.
At the age of 48, Li Fei-Fei, during a speech at Stanford University, stated that general artificial intelligence (AGI) and spatial intelligence will fill the gap between “vision” and “action.” She believes in the importance of data for AI, and during her time at Princeton University, she chose to study physics before shifting to computer science and neuroscience. At California Institute of Technology, she focused on obtaining a PhD in electrical engineering. After completing her doctorate, Li Fei-Fei joined the Stanford University AI Lab, beginning her academic career. In 2007, she initiated the ImageNet project at Stanford University, which is a large-scale visual database for research in visual object recognition software, containing over 14 million images and covering 21,800 categories of images. The database structure of ImageNet is basically pyramid-shaped, including directories, subdirectories, and image sets, with each node equivalent to a project or subcategory, and each node containing at least 500 training images/photos corresponding to objects. The initial version of ImageNet was officially released in June 2009.
Li Fei-Fei’s new AI company’s valuation exceeding $700 million in just three months and becoming the fastest unicorn is attributed to her profound accumulation and influence in the AI field, as well as her profound understanding of the value of AI data. Her entrepreneurial success also verifies the vast potential and market demand of AI technology in the field of spatial intelligence.
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