M&A AMD Is Buying World Labs for $8.2 Billion — Seven Months After Autodesk Put $200M Into It Autodesk bought a $200 million stake and an adviser role at the spatial-AI lab it called its bet on physical AI. A chipmaker has agreed to buy the whole thing in stock, and AMD's announcement does not mention Autodesk, construction or architecture once. Hugo Pegley · Oct 6, 2026