Fei-Fei Li is one of the brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence, managing to lead her startup to an impressive $1 billion valuation in just four months. Known as the “godmother of AI,” Li founded World Labs in April this year, quickly attracting major investors.
World Labs is dedicated to visual processing and advanced reasoning, aiming to bring AI closer to human cognition, a similar approach to efforts by ChatGPT.
As a leader in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, one of the world’s most prestigious institutions, Li is a co-creator of ImageNet, a visual object recognition database that catalyzed the deep learning revolution, a subfield of machine learning.
Additionally, Li is a co-founder of AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity and inclusion in AI education, research, development, and policy.
Li also has a notable career in the tech industry, having served as Chief Scientist at Google Cloud from 2017 to 2018 and being a board member of X since 2020.
Author of more than 100 scientific articles, Li has received various honors, including the IBM Faculty Fellow Award, the Alfred Sloan Faculty Fellowship, and the NSF Career Award. Amid the intense AI race, Fei-Fei Li emphasizes the importance of ensuring everyone has a voice in the development of this technology.
She advocates that humans should be at the center of this construction, a perspective essential for balanced and ethical progress. These principles are detailed in her book “The Worlds I See,” published in November 2023.
In the book, Li narrates her journey as a Chinese immigrant in the US, her career as a scientist and professor in Stanford’s computer science department, and her pioneering work in technology, such as image recognition.
Besides her academic and entrepreneurial work, Li has engaged in dialogues with political leaders, including US President Joe Biden, about the need for greater governmental involvement in AI regulation and the allocation of computational resources for areas that benefit the public, such as health and climate.
