Fei-Fei LiStartups World Labs Announced with Google Cloud agreement to select Google Cloud as its training AI Modelsof a major computing provider. The deal could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
World Labs will utilize GPU server licenses on the Google Cloud platform to provide compute services for its large multimodal AI models. The company's AI models, called "spatial intelligence," are capable of processing, generating, and interacting with video and geospatial data.
Google Cloud says World Labs' AI models have huge computational needs, requiring high-performance toolkits and a rich supply of AI chips, and that Google Cloud's AI chips, tensor processing units (TPUs), and Nvidia's GPUs will provide World Labs with the computational services it needs.
Fei-Fei Lee had led Google's AI efforts in 2018, but Google Cloud said the deal was not because of Fei-Fei Lee's connections, but because of Google Cloud's services and capabilities.James Lee, Google Cloud's general manager of AI, said World Labs chose Google Cloud for its AI-optimized infrastructure and ability to meet its scalability needs.
The deal is the latest move by cloud providers to go after AI startups, which Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS are all vying for business because they need a lot of compute services to train and run AI models.