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0 1 0 Comment on AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up)
AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up) AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up) AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up) AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up)

AlayaWorld — Shanda Just Open-Sourced a Playable Video World You Steer in Real Time and Reprogram Mid-Stream (“Summon a Monster” and It Actually Shows Up)

Most “world models” hand you a place and let you look around. AlayaWorld hands you a controller….

Issanou 1 August 2026
0 2 0 Comment on Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It)
Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It) Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It) Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It) Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It)

Wan-Dancer-14B — Alibaba Just Open-Sourced a One-Photo-Plus-a-Song Model That Dances in Sync for a Full Minute (and Lets You Re-Choreograph It)

Feed it one photo of a person and a music track. Get back a full minute of…

Issanou 1 August 2026
0 7 0 Comment on MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond
MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond

MeshRipple — The Real Unsolved Problem of AI 3D Isn’t the Shape, It’s the Wireframe. This Paper Grows Clean Topology Like a Ripple on a Pond

Every 3D artist who has run an AI generator has met the same monster: you type a…

Issanou 29 July 2026
0 10 0 Comment on Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth
Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth

Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth

One person, a weekend, and an MIT licence just did something Foundry, Autodesk and every VFX vendor…

Issanou 29 July 2026
0 11 0 Comment on Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same
Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same

Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same

Two months ago the Blender Foundation drew a line in the sand: no generative AI in the…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 7 0 Comment on ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU
ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU

ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU

A 0.5-billion-parameter model. One RTX 5090. And a world you can walk through for over an hour…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 8 0 Comment on The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU
The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU

The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU

An architect in Algeria, working on a laptop he says can’t even run a GPU, just shipped…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 9 0 Comment on SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock
SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock

SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock

AI can now dream up a 3D character from a single sentence in seconds. Then it hands…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 35 0 Comment on YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry
YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry

YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry

Here is the sentence nobody had on their 2026 bingo card: Yandex just open-sourced a production-grade Gaussian…

Issanou 16 July 2026
0 41 0 Comment on WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame
WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame

WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame

Every world model the Lab has covered this year answers the same question: can you generate a…

Issanou 16 July 2026