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0 1 0 Comment on 3DGS Render 5.1 — KIRI Just Made Gaussian Splats Relightable in Real Time, Free, Inside Blender

3DGS Render 5.1 — KIRI Just Made Gaussian Splats Relightable in Real Time, Free, Inside Blender

The Hook A Gaussian splat is a frozen photograph of a place. It carries the light that…

0 3 0 Comment on OctWorld — The TRELLIS Team Gave Their AI World a Map: An Octree Memory That Finally Stops the Dream From Drifting

OctWorld — The TRELLIS Team Gave Their AI World a Map: An Octree Memory That Finally Stops the Dream From Drifting

Every AI world model can dream you a place. Almost none of them can remember it. Walk…

0 3 0 Comment on World Labs Just Dropped Atlas — Fei-Fei Li’s Team Built One Model That Films a Camera Move AND Hands You the 3D Splat It Just Invented

World Labs Just Dropped Atlas — Fei-Fei Li’s Team Built One Model That Films a Camera Move AND Hands You the 3D Splat It Just Invented

Hook Most video models dream up pretty frames and forget them the moment the camera moves. Atlas,…

0 11 0 Comment on DreamX-Creator 1.0 — Alibaba’s Maps Team Just Open-Sourced a Video Model That Generates the Sound and the Picture as One Thing (Apache 2.0, 2K)

DreamX-Creator 1.0 — Alibaba’s Maps Team Just Open-Sourced a Video Model That Generates the Sound and the Picture as One Thing (Apache 2.0, 2K)

Hook A maps company just open-sourced one of the most interesting video models of the year. It…

0 15 0 Comment on Wan-Animate-2 — Alibaba Open-Sourced the Skeleton-Free Model That Makes Your Still Character Act, in Real Time (and Beats the Paid Ones)

Wan-Animate-2 — Alibaba Open-Sourced the Skeleton-Free Model That Makes Your Still Character Act, in Real Time (and Beats the Paid Ones)

Alibaba just open-sourced the animation tool a lot of us have been faking with duct tape. Wan-Animate-2…

0 23 1 Comment on LTX-2.5 — Lightricks Just Open-Weighted the AI Video Model You Can Actually Run: Native Multishot, 4K HDR, and the Same Character Across the Cut

LTX-2.5 — Lightricks Just Open-Weighted the AI Video Model You Can Actually Run: Native Multishot, 4K HDR, and the Same Character Across the Cut

Hook The same week the AI world lost its mind over MiniMax H3, a quieter release did…

0 22 0 Comment on WorldClaw — Tencent Sent a Crew of AI Agents to Build a Whole Open World From One Sentence, and Handed You Every Asset to Edit

WorldClaw — Tencent Sent a Crew of AI Agents to Build a Whole Open World From One Sentence, and Handed You Every Asset to Edit

Type a sentence. Get a whole world back — a coastline, a volcano, a mining town —…

0 19 0 Comment on ComfyUI Just Handed the Keys to Claude — Comfy MCP on Local Lets an Agent Build and Run Workflows on Your Own GPU

ComfyUI Just Handed the Keys to Claude — Comfy MCP on Local Lets an Agent Build and Run Workflows on Your Own GPU

The Hook On August 18, the ComfyUI team open-sourced Comfy MCP on Local. In plain terms: you…

0 21 1 Comment on Revit 2027 Just Put an AI Agent Inside the World’s BIM Standard — And Wired It for MCP, So Claude Can Read Your Live Building Model

Revit 2027 Just Put an AI Agent Inside the World’s BIM Standard — And Wired It for MCP, So Claude Can Read Your Live Building Model

Autodesk just did the thing everyone in the AI-3D world has been waiting for someone big to…

0 28 2 Comments on Fei-Fei Li’s Marble Just Walked Onto a CBS True-Crime Set — Promise Turned Old Crime-Scene Photos Into Filmable 3D Worlds, and Kept a Receipt for Every Prompt

Fei-Fei Li’s Marble Just Walked Onto a CBS True-Crime Set — Promise Turned Old Crime-Scene Photos Into Filmable 3D Worlds, and Kept a Receipt for Every Prompt

For a year we have watched AI world models spin up dreamy 3D spaces you can fly…