Fei-Fei Li

Stanford University computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is often referred to as the “godmother of AI” for her pioneering work on the computer vision benchmark ImageNet. She is the founding co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She is also the cofounder and CEO of World Labs, which is working on AI models that learn the physics and three dimensions of the real world. These models may be the key to getting everything from human robots to self-driving cars to work safely and effectively. The company was valued at more than $1 billion in a funding round in September 2024.