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Fei-Fei Li, the “godmother of AI,” says it straight: if we want real AGI, it’s about seeing and understanding the world in 3D. Spatial Intelligence is the next frontier of AI.
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AI INSIGHTS
Everyone’s been obsessed with language models lately, Claude, GPT, Gemini, but Fei-Fei Li just reminded us of something huge: the real world is 3D… and current AI still can’t see it.
In a powerful talk at Stanford HAI, the “godmother of AI” said the next frontier isn’t more chatbots, it’s spatial intelligence.
Here’s the big idea: Humans we move, navigate, sense depth, interact with objects. That’s spatial intelligence. And right now, most AI totally lacks it.
Here’s what Fei-Fei laid out:
Current AI is great at language, but blind to the physical world.
True intelligence needs to understand 3D space, movement, and physical interaction - like how we walk through a room or pick up a glass.
Combining spatial and language intelligence could create AI that’s actually useful in the real world, not just on your screen.
This will require merging fields like neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer vision - not just bigger transformers.
She pointed to systems like Waymo’s self-driving cars, which use LiDAR, computer vision, and deep learning to constantly analyze and react to their environment.
→ It’s a taste of what spatially-aware AI could become: helpers that see, move, and understand our world, not just summarize Wikipedia.
Fei-Fei’s message is quite clear, if we want real AGI, it has to leave the chat window and enter the room. Spatial intelligence unlocks AI in healthcare, eldercare, education, mobility, and more.
Why It Matters: This might be the biggest shift in AI thinking since the GPT craze started. And when those two worlds collide - language + spatial reasoning - that’s when AI really starts to feel human, feel us.
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
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AI QUICK HITS
🎮 Google execs hint Veo 3 might be the start of playable world models.
📄 Here’s the incredible ChatGPT prompt to learn everything about a topic.
💼 Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts for AI use.
💵 Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for users.
📰 The NYT won a court case, forcing OpenAI to keep deleted ChatGPT logs.
AI CHART
For years, creators had two bad choices: let AI scrape their work for free or block it entirely and lose reach. Now, Cloudflare’s stepping in with a third option, and it might change everything.
Cloudflare just dropped a private beta of Pay Per Crawl, a system that turns your content into a billable resource. The secret weapon? An old, barely-used web status code: HTTP 402 “Payment Required.”
Here’s how it works: Creators using Cloudflare can now decide what AI crawlers get to see and at what price. You get three options per crawler:
Let them crawl for free
Block them completely
Charge a flat per-request fee
If the AI company pays, they get access. If they don’t? Too bad, no content for you.
This is a big move because AI crawler traffic is exploding, GPTBot traffic alone surged 305% from 2024 to 2025.
→ Most of that content was scraped with zero payment, and only giant media companies had the leverage to fight back. Now, anyone can join the resistance.
And Cloudflare’s vision goes way beyond today’s bots…
They’re building infrastructure for the agentic internet, a future where your AI assistant browses the web, buys content on your behalf, and builds custom knowledge reports using real-time info.
Pay Per Crawl is the tollbooth that makes this future possible.
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