LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – Fei-Fei Li, known as the ‘Godmother of AI’, has taken the AI world by storm with her startup World Labs. But her beginnings were humble: An immigrant from China, she helped her parents in a cleaning business in New Jersey before becoming a leading AI researcher.
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Fei-Fei Li, one of the most influential figures in the field of artificial intelligence, has reached a remarkable milestone with her startup World Labs. The company, which specializes in the development of world models, is already valued at over a billion dollars. But the path to this success began in a small cleaning business in Parsippany, New Jersey, where Li helped her parents make ends meet as a teenager.
Li, who immigrated to the USA from China at the age of 15, took on responsibility in the family business at an early age. She now jokes that she was the ‘CEO’ of the cleaning company as she was the only one who spoke English and therefore handled all customer inquiries and business matters. These experiences taught her resilience, a quality that she also considers essential in her academic career.
After studying at Princeton University and completing her doctorate at Caltech in California, Li continued to run her parents’ business from afar. This ability to overcome challenges and adapt is reflected in her work on world models. These models are intended to help AI better understand and interact with the world by combining visual intelligence with spatial perception.
The importance of world models is seen by many experts as the next big step in AI development. While large language models like GPT-4 have already shown impressive progress, Li sees the potential to further push the boundaries of AI in the integration of visual and spatial intelligence. Their work on ImageNet was an important precursor to this development and shows how visual data can serve as the basis for more complex AI interactions.
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