IA Lab
AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
Niantic Spatial Just Turned Pokémon GO Into the World’s Most Powerful Spatial AI Platform
Pokémon GO secretly trained the most complete spatial intelligence model of the physical world ever built —…
KIRI Engine 4.2 — Gaussian Splats Are Finally Production-Ready Meshes
Gaussian Splatting produces the most photorealistic scans you’ve ever seen from a phone. But here’s the catch…
FLORA FAUNA — The AI Creative Agent Built to Make Sure You Never Look Like Everyone Else
There’s a quiet crisis in AI-generated creative work. When 50,000 designers all prompt the same models, the…
LTX-2.3 — The First Open-Source Video Model That Generates Sound and Image in One Single Shot
Running AI video generation locally — no cloud, no subscription, no queue — just crossed from “technically…
Dreamlands — The Ex-Ubisoft Team That Just Killed AAA World-Building Costs
A duo of Ubisoft and Unity veterans just shipped the world-building pipeline AAA studios have been dreaming…
daVinci-MagiHuman — Open Source Just Beat the Digital Human Industry at Its Own Game
A research lab you’ve probably never heard of just dropped a fully open-source, 15-billion parameter model that…
Adobe Firefly Custom Models — Train AI on Your Own Art, Keep Your Soul
The AI just learned your handwriting. On March 19, 2026, Adobe quietly dropped the most artist-friendly feature…
Omma by Spline — Type a Prompt, Get a Production-Ready 3D Website in Seconds
You describe a 3D landing page. Omma builds it — fully interactive, deploy-ready, with real 3D scenes,…
Mobile-GS — Your Phone Just Became a Real-Time Gaussian Splat Renderer
Until now, Gaussian Splatting meant beefy GPU. Server-side rendering. Desktop-only viewers. As of ICLR 2026, that’s over….
Maya 2027 — AI Just Learned to Animate Horses (And It’s Only Getting Started)
For decades, animating a galloping horse was a rite of passage For decades, animating a galloping horse…