>be dr. fei-fei li >born in beijing, raised in chengdu >dad moves to new jersey, follow at age 16 >speak almost no english >parents open a dry cleaner >work the counter on weekends >get into princeton on a full scholarship >study physics, because why not >caltech phd >everyone in AI is obsessed with algorithms >bet on data instead >"this will never scale" they say >do it anyway >get 14 million images hand-labeled >a team from toronto trains a convnet on it in 2012 >error rate falls off a cliff >deep learning era begins >become stanford professor >become google cloud chief scientist >found stanford HAI >press starts calling you the godmother of AI >2024, most of the field is racing on language >you say the next frontier is spatial intelligence >co-found World Labs in 2024 >ship Atlas in 2026, a model that turns a few photos into a whole 3D world