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  "markdown": "Co-founder, World Labs.\n\nChristoph Lassner co-founded World Labs. World Labs lists his TED talk of October 2025 on how generative AI leads to a new medium with characters and worlds that change over time.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-lassner-475a669b/\n\n## What Christoph builds\n\n- [World Labs World API (Marble)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/world-labs.md), graded D, 50.1/100, in 3D worlds. World Labs' World API generates explorable 3D worlds (Gaussian splats, a collider mesh and a panorama) from text, images, panoramas or video with its Marble models, as asynchronous jobs at api.worldlabs.ai paid for with prepaid credits. Co-founder, World Labs, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Ben Mildenhall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-mildenhall/), Co-founder, World Labs\n- [Fei-Fei Li](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/fei-fei-li/), Co-founder and CEO, World Labs\n- [Justin Johnson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/justin-johnson/), Co-founder, World Labs\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Radical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radical-ventures/)\n- [NEA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nea/)\n- [Marc Benioff](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/marc-benioff/)\n- [Ashton Kutcher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ashton-kutcher/)\n- [Adobe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adobe/)\n- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)\n- [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Autodesk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/autodesk/)\n- [Emerson Collective](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emerson-collective/)\n- [Fidelity Management \u0026 Research Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fidelity-management-research-company/)\n- [Sea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sea/)\n- [ADIC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adic/)\n- [Cisco](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco/)\n- [Intel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/intel/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [Samsung](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/samsung/)\n- [Sanabil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sanabil/)\n- [Sound](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sound/)\n- [Temasek](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/temasek/)\n- [Zoom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zoom/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Christoph Lassner?\n\nChristoph Lassner co-founded World Labs. World Labs lists his TED talk of October 2025 on how generative AI leads to a new medium with characters and worlds that change over time.\n\n### What does World Labs Technologies, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists World Labs World API (Marble) from World Labs Technologies, Inc.. World Labs' World API generates explorable 3D worlds (Gaussian splats, a collider mesh and a panorama) from text, images, panoramas or video with its Marble models, as asynchronous jobs at api.worldlabs.ai paid for with prepaid credits.\n\n### Who has invested in World Labs Technologies, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures, NEA, Marc Benioff, Ashton Kutcher, Adobe, AMD, Databricks, NVIDIA, Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management \u0026 Research Company, Sea, ADIC, Cisco, Intel, Salesforce, Samsung, Sanabil, Sound, Temasek and Zoom.\n\n### How are Christoph's tools graded?\n\nWorld Labs World API (Marble) is graded D, 50.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.worldlabs.ai/about\n- https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog\n- https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement\n- https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/funding-2026\n- https://www.worldlabs.ai/security\n- https://www.worldlabs.ai/terms-of-service\n- https://docs.worldlabs.ai/marble/support/support-feedback\n- https://docs.worldlabs.ai/api/rate-limits\n- https://docs.worldlabs.ai/api/examples\n- https://github.com/worldlabsai/worldlabs-api-python\n- https://adsknews.autodesk.com/en/news/autodesk-invests-in-world-labs/\n- https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1299/amd-to-acquire-world-labs-to-advance-the-future-of-ai-compute\n- https://www.foley.com/news/2024/09/foley-represents-nea-as-co-lead-investor-in-funding-for-ai-startup-world-labs/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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