Fei-Fei Li
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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Atlas is the first model to unify pixel generation and pixel reconstruction, two tracks computer vision has kept apart for over half a century.
It's the first time we have a unification of pixel generation and pixel reconstruction. In the world of computer vision this field has been around for more than half a century.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
Spatial intelligence has to let us generate a space, reason inside it, and edit and interact within it; anything less is not spatial intelligence.
Well, spatial intelligence eventually must enable us to both generate what the space is, reason within it, and being able to edit and interact within it.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
The fundamental problem spatial intelligence must solve is understanding the geometry, the structure and the physics of a space.
But to do that, a fundamental problem to solve is to understand the geometry and structure and the physics of the space.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
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Generating pixels was the easy step; generating pixels that are spatially contextualised and grounded is the hard one.
So in the on the path to spatial intelligence, generating pixels is definitely a a early step, which we have seen with what you call it gazillions of models. But generating pixels that are truly spatially contextualized and grounded is absolutely another major step. And that is the very hard step that Atlas has taken.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
The camera pose is the most critical piece of information about the geometry of a space, which is why estimating it for every frame is the real advance.
And I do believe Atlas is a significant step forward because now with every single frame, you have a you can generate an estimate a important piece of information, which is the the view viewpoint, the camera pose. And that is the most critical information one needs about the geometry of the of the space.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
The 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.
I 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.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
The biggest problem in robotics today is data, not chips; chips become the bottleneck later.
We should zoom out and recognize the biggest problem right now in robotics is actually data. One day it'll be chips, but for now it's data.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
Robot training data is not just recordings of a task: the environment has to be randomised, or the policy only ever learns the one cable it was shown.
There is also a very important step called randomization. Is that you have to take the same environment and then randomize the conditions. So, the cable doesn't literally only, you know, uh bend this way. It can bend a different way or the box can have different sizes, colors, different lids, and all that.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
There is not yet a frontier foundation model robust enough for robotics.
cuz we don't yet have a a frontier foundation model that's robust enough for for uh robotics.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
Intelligence is not sitting still and interpreting what you see; it is closing the loop between seeing, experiencing and interacting.
I think for me, let's go back to the first principle of intelligence. Intelligence is not sitting there stuck and just seeing something or interpreting something when it comes to space and physical space, right? It's really this uh closing the loop between seeing and experiencing and interaction.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
Nature gave eyes to animals and not to trees because eyes are only worth having if you move, and moving is what produces a new viewpoint.
So okay, so to take a evolutionary view, right? That new viewpoint prediction is exactly evolution had to solve by making animals move. You you nature give animals eyes. But nature didn't give trees eye. Eyes. Why? Because when you move, you see a new viewpoint.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
New view prediction is to spatial intelligence what next token prediction is to language.
we do believe very strongly that next viewpoint prediction is is the equivalent of next token prediction.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
A model that invents an aerial view of the Stanford quad out of photographs taken from the ground is generating pixels that still obey the laws of reconstruction.
One thing that's under appreciated on the website of the demos is the Stanford demo where Ben showed uh anywhere between 3 to 25 images you can reconstruct that entire Stanford quad. But the thing is we had to show it from aerial view. But every single input image is been standing on the ground taking a picture from the ground. So, everything you see are generated but according to the laws of reconstruction.
Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Said 4 Sept 2026
Sensing the world is what set evolution racing: the first photoreceptive cells created the force that drove animal life to diversify.
But the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
AI's bottleneck was never its algorithms but how little data they were fed, which is why the field needed ImageNet rather than another model.
So we conjectured that the lack of data was a huge part of the reason that's the lack of progress in AI. So we took a departure from everybody else who are really focusing only on algorithm and said that we need data. we need data to drive these algorithms.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Video generation was not an algorithmic revolution: it was the same neural-network era with video added to the training data.
What happened there is actually not as revolutionary as you might think because the bottom line is it's still data.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
A child who has seen ten cats learns what a machine needs the whole internet of cat photos for, by a learning pathway nobody has solved.
that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
The internet is not a random pile of content but the largest capture of human behaviour ever made, which is the whole reason AI trained on it works.
Internet is not some random thing. Internet is the biggest collection of human behavior in multimodal forms.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
A thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique.
that thought is not captured therefore it's not on the internet therefore AI has not seen it so that is where humans still remain so unique
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
The mathematical problems whose solutions have not yet been invented will be solved by humans working alongside AI, not by either alone.
My current conjecture is hybrid is that humans working alongside AI would help us to solve these problems whose solutions have yet to be invented.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
AI should be built as a tool that strengthens human agency, and the people leading the field should stop talking as though it will take agency away.
we need to think about AI as a tool that helps us in our agency. It does it should not take away our agency and people who lead in today's AI should not try to talk like that this this work will take away agency from people.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Public discussion of AI is skewed because the people who understand the technology talk down to everyone else.
the rhetoric around AI right now is getting really skewed because people who know what this is tend to talk down at the public.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Scientific discovery is ready to be rewritten, because for all of history it has run at the speed of smart humans remembering what other smart humans learned.
I think we're we're ready for complete re rewriting of how scientific discovery can be done because for ages, I don't even know how long, it relies on smart humans retaining what they have learned from other smart humans
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
AI learns from patterns, so where the patterns are scarce, as in liver surgery, a human working with the machine beats the machine working alone.
So this speaks of a very important fact that um AI learns from patterns. When the patterns are not abundant, then we have to be careful. We have to know how to use AI or how not to use AI.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Capability has never been the reason a technology gets deployed: any carmaker could switch the brakes off every Friday, and none does.
humans are capable of doing a lot of things with our tools, but we don't do all of them. For example, today any car manufacturer can say every Friday the brake doesn't work. This is a trivial technology. There's a clock in the car's computer and it just turns off the brake every Friday. But we don't do that because it has deeply bad implications to our human society.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
It would be dangerous for a few people from industry to set the rules for AI, because market forces are not societal norms.
What I would not like to see is one person or or a few people coming from industry and telling everybody what to do. I think that would be dangerous because market forces are different from uh societal norms and culture and heritage are different from uh education and ethics and and these are multistakeholder problems to solve together.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
The worst outcome of AI for young people is that it takes away their agency and their motivation to learn.
The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools. So doom scrolling, passive watching of shorts, all this are not helping agency, human agency.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Denying students AI because you fear they will cheat is its own harm, as bad as letting the tool take their motivation away.
The other kind of danger is in the name of agency and and uh and motivation the tools are denied to our students because we're worried you cheat or worry you only got your answer from Chad GBT. That is very bad as well
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Learning takes time, effort and sometimes pain, and no tool changes that, because that is how the brain is built.
Learning fundamentally respecting the hardware you're talking about takes time, takes effort, sometimes takes some pain. That is just how our brain is.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Prompting should be taught in schools from kindergarten onwards, as a matter of public education.
This is why public education is so important. This is why education is so important. I would love to see our schools K12 teaching prompting.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
The next frontier of AI lies beyond language, because intelligence in nature ran for 500 million years before words existed.
The next frontier of AI as I have been saying is beyond language because again humans develop first preverbally. evolution took, you know, 500 million years without verbal communication
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Teachers are the most important people in society and the ones the AI industry has most completely forgotten.
They are the most important people in our society. We should be talking to them. We should be uplifting them. We should be supporting them. We should be providing resources to them.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
The test for AI in the creative industries is whether it superpowers people's creativity rather than taking their jobs.
it's not that technology should be taking their jobs away technology should be making their jobs better superpowering their creativity
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing.
when the machine says I'm sorry you're so sick today it's very different from how your friend says it to you because the machine said that because it has learned through pattern when someone tells it I'm sick you should say I'm sorry you're sick instead of I'm so glad you're sick because that data exists.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Said 10 Aug 2026
Growth of internet image data can enable more sophisticated models for indexing and interacting with multimedia.
The explosion of image data on the Internet has the potential to foster more sophisticated and robust models and algorithms to index, retrieve, organize and interact with images and multimedia data.
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors) Said 1 Jun 2009
How large-scale internet image data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.
But exactly how such data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors) Said 1 Jun 2009
ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and more accurate than existing image datasets.
We show that ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and much more accurate than the current image datasets.
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors) Said 1 Jun 2009
ImageNet's scale, accuracy, diversity and hierarchy could offer unparalleled opportunities to computer vision researchers.
We hope that the scale, accuracy, diversity and hierarchical structure of ImageNet can offer unparalleled opportunities to researchers in the computer vision community and beyond.
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors) Said 1 Jun 2009
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