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Dec 5, 2025 · 1h 1m, Episode 985

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

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Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She created ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep learning revolution. Justin Johnson is her former PhD student, ex-professor at Michigan, ex-Meta researcher, and now co-founder of World Labs. Together, they just launched Marble—the first model that generates explorable 3D worlds from text or images. In this episode Fei-Fei and Justin explore why spatial intelligence is fundamentally different from language, what's missing from current world models (hint: physics), and the architectural insight that tra...

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