Justin Johnson is Co-Founder at World Labs, a spatial intelligence AI company building Large World Models to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world.

Justin received his PhD from Stanford University advised by Fei-Fei Li, and served as Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR).

Justin created the CLEVR visual reasoning dataset, contributed to PyTorch development, and has over 44,900 citations in computer vision and machine learning research. He received the NSF CAREER Award for his research contributions.

World Labs raised $1 billion in February 2026 from investors including Nvidia, AMD, Autodesk, and Fidelity, following a $230 million Series A in 2024. The company launched Marble, its first commercial product for generating 3D worlds.

World Labs achieved unicorn status within months of founding and is valued at approximately $5 billion. Justin's research papers have shaped AI development across computer vision, neural style transfer, and 3D reasoning.