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AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
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…
Midjourney V8 Alpha Just Rebuilt Its Engine From Scratch — And You Can Feel It
Seven days ago, Midjourney quietly dropped V8 Alpha at alpha.midjourney.com. No fanfare, no launch event. But this…
Tripo AI Smart Mesh P1.0 — AI 3D Generation Just Crossed the Production Line
For years, the dirty secret of AI 3D generation was the cleanup tax: you’d generate something impressive,…
NanoGS — Free Plugin Brings Nanite-Style Gaussian Splatting to Unreal Engine
Gaussian Splatting is the most photorealistic scene capture tech we have right now. Scan a real space…
MetaHuman 5.7 — Epic Finally Unlocks the Digital Human Pipeline for Everyone
For years, MetaHuman was the most impressive digital human tool you couldn’t fully use — not if…
Step1X-3D: The Open-Source Model That’s Beating the Proprietary 3D Giants
StepFun drops Step1X-3D — fully open-source, two-stage 3D asset generation that matches or beats Meshy, Rodin, and Tripo. Watertight meshes, LoRA-compatible textures, 2M curated assets. Here’s why this is the Stable Diffusion moment for 3D generation.
Rodin Gen-2 Edit — Talk to Your 3D Models and They Actually Listen
Hyper3D just turned 3D AI from a one-shot generation trick into a real creative tool. Rodin Gen-2…
AI Comics Just Solved Their Biggest Problem — Character Consistency Is Finally Real
Character consistency in AI-generated comics just went from “pray and regenerate” to “actually reliable.” Thanks to identity…
World Labs Raises $1B and Drops the World API — Spatial Intelligence Just Became Programmable
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs just closed a $1 billion round — with NVIDIA and Autodesk on the…