IA Lab Archives - IK3D https://ik3d.fr/category/ia-lab/ Art Director / B3D Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:22:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ik3d.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-Logo-8-07-1-32x32.png IA Lab Archives - IK3D https://ik3d.fr/category/ia-lab/ 32 32 http://ik3d.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/svgLogo.svghttp://ik3d.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/svgLogo.svg54b5c4 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) https://ik3d.fr/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/ https://ik3d.fr/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/#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:22:46 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47927 Most “world models” hand you a place and let you look around. AlayaWorld hands you a controller....

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/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/ 0 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 https://ik3d.fr/meshripple-the-real-unsolved-problem-of-ai-3d-isnt-the-shape-its-the-wireframe-this-paper-grows-clean-topology-like-a-ripple-on-a-pond/ https://ik3d.fr/meshripple-the-real-unsolved-problem-of-ai-3d-isnt-the-shape-its-the-wireframe-this-paper-grows-clean-topology-like-a-ripple-on-a-pond/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:39:00 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47872 Every 3D artist who has run an AI generator has met the same monster: you type a...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/meshripple-the-real-unsolved-problem-of-ai-3d-isnt-the-shape-its-the-wireframe-this-paper-grows-clean-topology-like-a-ripple-on-a-pond/feed/ 0 Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth https://ik3d.fr/marble-x-nuke-one-artist-just-put-fei-fei-lis-world-model-three-keystrokes-from-every-compositor-on-earth/ https://ik3d.fr/marble-x-nuke-one-artist-just-put-fei-fei-lis-world-model-three-keystrokes-from-every-compositor-on-earth/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:37:41 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47910 One person, a weekend, and an MIT licence just did something Foundry, Autodesk and every VFX vendor...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/marble-x-nuke-one-artist-just-put-fei-fei-lis-world-model-three-keystrokes-from-every-compositor-on-earth/feed/ 0 Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same https://ik3d.fr/blender-just-shipped-an-official-mcp-server-and-at-siggraph-nvidia-read-out-the-list-of-every-dcc-that-did-the-same/ https://ik3d.fr/blender-just-shipped-an-official-mcp-server-and-at-siggraph-nvidia-read-out-the-list-of-every-dcc-that-did-the-same/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:46:37 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47922 Two months ago the Blender Foundation drew a line in the sand: no generative AI in the...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/blender-just-shipped-an-official-mcp-server-and-at-siggraph-nvidia-read-out-the-list-of-every-dcc-that-did-the-same/feed/ 0 ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU https://ik3d.fr/abot-world-alibabas-maps-division-just-open-sourced-an-hour-long-explorable-world-model-that-runs-on-one-desktop-gpu/ https://ik3d.fr/abot-world-alibabas-maps-division-just-open-sourced-an-hour-long-explorable-world-model-that-runs-on-one-desktop-gpu/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:45:04 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47906 A 0.5-billion-parameter model. One RTX 5090. And a world you can walk through for over an hour...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/abot-world-alibabas-maps-division-just-open-sourced-an-hour-long-explorable-world-model-that-runs-on-one-desktop-gpu/feed/ 0 The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU https://ik3d.fr/the-algerian-architect-who-put-gaussian-splats-in-rhino-on-a-laptop-with-no-gpu/ https://ik3d.fr/the-algerian-architect-who-put-gaussian-splats-in-rhino-on-a-laptop-with-no-gpu/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:43:49 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47902 An architect in Algeria, working on a laptop he says can’t even run a GPU, just shipped...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/the-algerian-architect-who-put-gaussian-splats-in-rhino-on-a-laptop-with-no-gpu/feed/ 0 SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock https://ik3d.fr/skintokens-tsinghua-and-vast-just-turned-rigging-into-a-language-and-the-dead-statue-era-of-ai-3d-is-on-the-clock/ https://ik3d.fr/skintokens-tsinghua-and-vast-just-turned-rigging-into-a-language-and-the-dead-statue-era-of-ai-3d-is-on-the-clock/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:42:09 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47897 AI can now dream up a 3D character from a single sentence in seconds. Then it hands...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/skintokens-tsinghua-and-vast-just-turned-rigging-into-a-language-and-the-dead-statue-era-of-ai-3d-is-on-the-clock/feed/ 0 YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry https://ik3d.fr/yags-yandex-just-open-sourced-the-unreal-plugin-that-finally-makes-gaussian-splats-occlude-your-geometry/ https://ik3d.fr/yags-yandex-just-open-sourced-the-unreal-plugin-that-finally-makes-gaussian-splats-occlude-your-geometry/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:33:02 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47867 Here is the sentence nobody had on their 2026 bingo card: Yandex just open-sourced a production-grade Gaussian...

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]]> https://ik3d.fr/yags-yandex-just-open-sourced-the-unreal-plugin-that-finally-makes-gaussian-splats-occlude-your-geometry/feed/ 0 WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame https://ik3d.fr/worlddirector-the-first-world-model-you-direct-like-a-film-set-and-it-actually-remembers-what-left-the-frame/ https://ik3d.fr/worlddirector-the-first-world-model-you-direct-like-a-film-set-and-it-actually-remembers-what-left-the-frame/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:31:00 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47848 Every world model the Lab has covered this year answers the same question: can you generate a...

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