'Godmother of AI' Fei-Fei Li builds $1B startup in 4 months

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Stanford University’s artificial intelligence leader Fei-Fei Li has quietly built a billion-dollar start-up in just four months, joining the fierce race across the tech industry to commercialise the technology.

Li, a computer scientist who has been dubbed the “godmother of AI”, created a company called World Labs in April, according to three people with knowledge of the move.

Really all by herself? Amazing.

Wait, she had help?