Messi Bet on Li Feifei, the Football King Starts Betting on the World Model

According to OnChain Beat, Lionel Messi's investment platform Play Time has added Li Feifei's World Labs to its portfolio. World Labs focuses on research in spatial intelligence and world modeling, aiming to enable AI to understand, generate, and manipulate the 3D world.

Play Time is Messi's primary investment platform established in 2022, initially focusing on sports, media, and technology. The current investment portfolio also includes robotics company FieldAI, voice AI company Fish Audio, and AI data platform SuperAnnotate.

World Labs raised $1 billion in February this year. Major investors include NVIDIA, AMD, and Autodesk.