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Autodesk is leaning into the AI-powered physical world.

The company announced a $200 million strategic investment in AI research firm World Labs, its largest startup investment to date.

Here to discuss, Autodesk president and CEO, Andrew Anagnos.

Very interesting.

Good morning to you.

I'm very excited about today.

We've been looking into this idea a lot, you know, through the beginning of 2026, particularly in the context of industrial manufacturing, the future role of humanoid robots, how they come to learn the environment that they're in.

People sometimes say digital twins.

You have chosen what you believe to be the best player, right, for the sort of AI and software underpinning of that.

To start, why World Labs?

Yeah, well, there's a couple of really important reasons.

First, we kind of share a common ethos.

We believe that AI can enhance and expand human ingenuity, not replace it.

And that's something that both World Labs and Autodesk share in common.

But more importantly, Fei-Fei Li, Autodesk, others believe that the next frontier are world models.

This is the ability to simulate, predict, and react to real-world constraints

and virtual changes in real-world constraints, virtual changes of design constraints within a virtual environment.