AI Startup World Labs Launches With $230M From Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia鈥檚 Venture Arm

Spatial intelligence AI startup launched Friday with more than $230 million in total funding.

The funding was co-led by , and . Other investors include , , , , and , the venture capital arm of .

It was reported just last month that the Stanford, California-based company had raised a pair of financing rounds two months apart, and that the latest valued the company at over $1 billion.

World Labs is co-founded by artificial intelligence pioneer , commonly referred to as the 鈥済odmother of AI.鈥� She previously has led AI at and is a co-director of the . She has spent much of her time trying to solve the issues surrounding building Large World Models for AI that can perceive and interact with the 3D world.

鈥淲e aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds 鈥� both virtual and real 鈥� endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own,鈥� the company on its site announcing its launch. 鈥淗uman spatial intelligence evolved over millennia; but in this time of extraordinary progress, we see the opportunity to imbue AI with this ability in the near term.鈥�

AI鈥檚 hot as ever

The round is just the latest huge raise by an AI startup 鈥� once again showing investors鈥� insatiable appetite for the technology.

Just last week, AI research lab raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and . The round valued the company at $5 billion, per , which first reported the round.

Then this week AI-enhanced work assistant and enterprise search startup raised more than $260 million in a Series E funding at a $4.6 billion valuation co-led by and .

Of course, none of that even comes close to the reported $6.5 billion reportedly is in talks to raise at a mind-blowing $150 billion valuation.