IA Lab
AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
D-ID V4 — Your Digital Human Just Got Emotions, Sub-0.5s Latency, and 4K Resolution
Digital humans have been “almost there” for years. Great resolution, creepy stillness, robotic delivery. D-ID V4 Expressive…
Wan 2.7 — Alibaba’s Open-Source Video AI Just Hit 4K With Instruction Editing
Everyone’s chasing Sora and Runway. Meanwhile, Alibaba quietly shipped what may be the most capable open-source video…
Arcturus Studios — 4D Gaussian Splatting Just Put You Ringside at Every Angle
Sports broadcast has had one camera problem for decades: you can only be where the cameras are….
Convai v4 + NeuroSync — Your Game NPCs Just Learned to Talk, Remember, and Feel
NPCs that truly talk, listen, remember, and move their face in sync with what they’re saying —…
Apple LGTM — 4K Gaussian Splatting Without the Memory Explosion
Feed-forward Gaussian splatting has been stuck at a hard ceiling: push resolution past 1080p and memory explodes….
FLUX.2 — Black Forest Labs Just Rebuilt the Image Generation Foundation
Black Forest Labs just dropped FLUX.2 — and if you’ve been using FLUX.1 for your creative pipeline,…
Genie 3 — Google DeepMind Just Made Interactive 3D Worlds From Text a Reality
Type a text prompt. Walk inside it. In real time. At 24 frames per second. That’s Genie…
Splats Are Now Infrastructure — OpenUSD and glTF Just Made Gaussian Splatting Official
For two years, Gaussian splatting lived in the weird zone between research demo and production workaround —…
Veras 4.0 — AI Just Moved Into Your BIM Software and It’s Changing How Architects Design
For years, AI rendering was something you did outside your workflow — export a screenshot, paste it…
Gaussian Splat Studio — Cinema 4D Finally Gets a Real Splatting Workflow
Gaussian splatting has been awkwardly sitting on the sidelines for C4D artists — you could capture stunning…