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Fei Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier

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Fei-Fei Li argues that spatial intelligence—the ability to understand and interact with three-dimensional spaces—represents AI's next major breakthrough beyond current language models. While today's AI excels at text and pattern recognition, it struggles with basic spatial tasks like estimating distance, navigating spaces, or predicting physics, limiting applications in robotics, scientific discovery, and immersive experiences. Li's company World Labs is developing "world models" that can generate, understand, and interact with complex 3D environments, recently releasing Marble for creators and storytellers.

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