What Fei-Fei Li thinks about world models

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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1. 4 Sept 2026

   Our readingThe scaling law for world models was a conviction held in advance, not a discovery; the devils were always in the architecture choices and the data mixture.

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   Their wordsI think three of us have total conviction about the scaling law. That that I think we do. I do think the exact architecture choices and data mixtures is where the the devils are in the details.

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