IA Lab
AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
Power Foam — One Radiance Field That Rasterizes AND Ray Traces at the Same Damn Time
Since 3DGS dropped, the radiance field world has lived in two camps that refused to talk to…
Cesium Just Made Gaussian Splats Industrial — 110 Million Splats Streamed Like Map Tiles, To Any Browser
For two years Gaussian Splatting has been the coolest party trick in 3D — photoreal captures that…
Reallusion Headshot 3 — Type a Prompt, Get a Production-Grade Digital Double in Character Creator 5
Yesterday, April 28, 2026, Reallusion shipped Headshot 3 for Character Creator 5 — and quietly delivered the…
Project ETERNAL — Antigravity, CyArk and Splatica Just Turned Pompeii Into a Gaussian Splat (And They Want You to Splat the World)
A 249-gram drone flies invisibly above the ruins of Pompeii, capturing 8K 360° footage of every fresco,…
NVIDIA AI Blueprint × Microsoft TRELLIS — Type a Scene, Get 20 Game-Ready Assets in Blender
Type “cyberpunk night market.” Wait two minutes. Get twenty production-ready 3D assets, sorted, named, and dropped straight…
ByteDance Seed3D 2.0 — The First AI 3D Model That Stopped Pretending Edges Are Round
ByteDance just dropped Seed3D 2.0 — coarse-to-fine DiT, unified PBR with a VLM, 80%+ human-preference win on geometry. The first AI 3D model that takes sharp edges and physical materials seriously.
Autodesk Forma Building Design — Neural CAD Just Landed and It Wants to Automate 80% of Architecture
Autodesk just dropped the biggest AI bet in its 40-year history. Forma Building Design launched April 7,…
ChatGPT Images 2.0 — The First AI That Thinks Before It Draws
Most image generators guess. They take your prompt, roll the statistical dice, and hand you whatever comes…
NVIDIA Lyra 2.0 — Give It One Photo, It Gives You an Infinite Explorable 3D World
NVIDIA’s Spatial Intelligence Lab just dropped Lyra 2.0 — open source, published April 2026 — and it…
Tripo AI H3.1 — Native 3D Diffusion Just Made Film-Grade Assets in 2 Seconds
One month ago, Tripo gave us Smart Mesh P1.0 — the fastest game-ready low-poly generator around. Now…